Friday, 21 August 2015

(suffix)(feeding and eating)vore

algivore        Eater of algae
ambivore        Eater of grasses and broad-leaved plants
amphivore       Eater of both animal and vegetable foods; omnivore
aphidivore      Eater of aphids
apivore Eater of bees
arachnivore     Eater of spiders
aurivore        Eater of gold
baccivore       Eater of berries
bacterivore     Eater of bacteria
batrachivore    Eater of water bottoms
brychocarnivore Eater of meat with a lot of noise and greed
brychomnivore   Eater in a noisy, barbaric way
calcivore       Eater of calcium
cancrivore      Eater of crabs
carnivore       Eater of meat
cepivore        Eater of onions
concarnivore    Eater onlyof foods that contain meat
corallivore     Eater of coral
detritivore     Eater of dead organic material, especially plant detritus
equivorous      Eating horse-flesh
erucivore       Eater of caterpillars
exudativore     Eater of gum and other exudates from trees
femivore        A feminist woman who devotes a serious amount of time to
feeding her family
ferrivore       Eater of iron
fimivore        Eater of dung
florivore       Eater of flowers or plant species
folivore        Eater of leaves
forbivore       Eater of broad-leaved plants
formicivore     Eater of ants
formivore       Eater of ants
frondivore      Eater of leaves
fructivore      Eater of fruit
frugivore       Eater of fruit
fucivore        Eater of seaweed
fumivore        Eater of smoke
fungivore       Eater of fungi
gallivore       Eater of galls
graminivore     Eater of grasses
granivore       Eater of grain
gumivore        Eater of gums secreted by plants
herbivore       Eater of plants
hominivore      Eater of humans
humanovore      Eater of humans
humivore        Eater of humus
insectivore     Eater of insects
lactivore       Eater of milk
larvivore       eater of larvae
leguminivore    Eater of beans, peas and other legumes
lichenivore     Eater of lichens
lignivore       Eater of wood
limnivore       Eater of mud
lithovore       Eater of rocks and minerals
locavore        Eater of only locally grown food
mellivore       Eater of honey
merdivore       Eater of excrement
microbivore     Eater of microorganisms
molluscivore    Eater of molluscs
mucivore        Eater of plant juices
mycovore        Eater of fungi
myrmevore       Eater of ants
nectarivore     Eater of nectar
nucivore        Eater of nuts
offivore        Eater of offal
omniverbivorous Capable of swallowing all words
omnivoracity    Having an eagerness to consume great amounts of all kinds of food
omnivore        Eater of any type of available food
ornithivore     Eater of birds
oryzivore       Eater of rice
ossivore        Eater of bones
ovivore         Eater of eggs
palynivore      Eater of pollen
panivore        Eater of bread
photovore       Eater of light
phytivore       Eater of plants or vegetable matter
phytosuccivore  Eater of the sap of plants
pigmentivorous  Eating pigments; destroying paint
pinivore        Eater of pine seeds
piscivore       Eater of fish
planktivore     Eater of plankton
plurivore       Eater of many things
pollenivore     Eater of pollen
pollinivore     Eater of pollen produced by plant stamens
pomivore        Eater of apples
pupivore        Eater of pupae
quercivore      Eater of oak leaves
radicivore      Eater of tubers and roots
ranivore        Eater of frogs
reptilivore     Eater of reptiles
sanguinivore    Eater of blood
saprovore       Eater of dead or decaying organic matter
seminivore      Eater of seeds
serpentivorous  Eater of snakes
spongivore      Eater of sponges
stercovore      Eater of excrement or dung
uncarnivorous   Non-meat eater
univore         Eater of just one kind of food, or eating just once a day
vermivore       Eater of worms
voracious       Eater of great quantities of food
vorarephilia    Sexual arousal from the idea of being eaten, eating
another, or watching this
xylovore        Eater of wood
zoosuccivore    Eater of the liquid secretions of decaying animal matter

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