mucivore
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mucus (“slime, mucus”) + vorare (“to devour”).
Noun
mucivore (plural mucivores)
- (zoology) An insect that feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mucivore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)