-vore

English

Etymology

This suffix comes from the Latin vorare (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.

Suffix

-vore

1. An animal, identified by their kind of diet.

Derived terms

[+] English words suffixed with -vore

general diets

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

specific diets

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

• 1999 January 23, Molles, Manuel C., Jr., Ecology: Concepts and Applications, edition International Edition, Dubuque: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., DOI:QH541.M65, ISBN 0-07-042716-X, page 510pp:
• 2002 January 23, Smith, Robert Leo; Thomas M. Smith, Elements of Ecology, edition Fourth Edition, Singapore: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., ISBN 981-4119-31-8, page 567pp:
• San Diego Zoo on "vores"