-vore - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Suffix
    * 1.2.1 Derived terms
    * 1.2.3 Translations
  • 1.3 See also
  • 1.4 References
  • 1.5 Anagrams
• 2 French
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Suffix
    * 2.3.1 Derived terms
  • 2.4 Further reading
• 3 Latin
  • 3.1 Pronunciation
  • 3.2 Suffix

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From the Latin vorare (“to devour”).

-vore

1. An organism, usually animal, identified by its kind of diet.

(general diets):

• carnivore - meat only
• herbivore - plants only
• omnivore - plants and meat

(specific diets):

• amphibivore - amphibians

• corallivore - corals

• cytovore - cytoplasma (cellular)

• detritivore - decomposing material

• folivore, frondivore - leaves

• fructivore, frugivore - fruit

• graminivore - grass

• granivore - seeds

• humivore - 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

• rodentivore - rodents

• sanguinivore - blood

• saprovore - dead or decaying matter

• spongivore - sea sponges

• -vorous

• -phagy

• Molles, Manuel C., Jr. (1999) Ecology: Concepts and Applications, International edition, Dubuque: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., →DOI, →ISBN, page 510

• Smith, Robert Leo with Thomas M. Smith (2002) Elements of Ecology, Fourth edition, Singapore: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 567

• San Diego Zoo on "vores"

• Over, over, over-, rove

Borrowed from Latin -vorus.

• IPA(key): /vɔʁ/
• Homophone: -vores

-vore m (masculine and feminine, plural -vores)

1. -vore
2. -vorous

• “-vore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯o.re/, [u̯ɔrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vo.re/, [vore] (stressed on the antepenult)

-vore

1. vocative masculine singular of -vorus

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