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The suffix '-vore' comes from the Latin word ''vorare'', meaning ''to devour'', and is used to form nouns indicating what kind of a diet an animal has. Equivalent adjectives can be formed through use of the suffix '-vorous'.
The following is a list of words ending in vore, as well what kind of diet the word indicates.

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General

Specific

See also

References

External links

General

★ Carnivore - meat only

★ Herbivore - plants only

★ Omnivore - plants and meat

Specific

★ Corallivore - corals

★ Detritivore - decomposing material

★ Folivore, frondivore - leaves

★ Fructivore, frugivore - fruit

★ Graminivore - grass

★ Granivore - seeds

★ Humivores - dark brown part of soil that consists of decomposed plants and animals (compost).

★ Insectivore - insects

★ Limnivore - mud

★ Lithovore - rocks and minerals

★ Molluscivore - molluscs

★ Mucivore - plant juices

★ Mycovore - fungi

★ Nectarivore - nectar

★ Palynivore - pollen

★ Piscivore - fish

★ Saprovore - dead or decaying matter

★ Sanguinivore - blood

★ Spongivore - sea sponges

★ Cytovore - Cytoplasma (Cellular)

See also

★ Vorarephilia

★ Phagy

References

★ Ecology: Concepts and Applications, , Manuel C., Jr., Molles, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., , ISBN 0-07-042716-X

★ Elements of Ecology, , Robert Leo, Smith, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., , ISBN 981-4119-31-8

External links

★ San Diego Zoo on "vores"