nectarivory
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Noun[edit]
nectarivory (uncountable)
- (zoology) The eating of nectar, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal.
- Synonym: nectivory
- 2005, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 239:
- Lower dipteran adults are predominantly penetrative or surface fluid feeders, frequently expressed as nectarivory, which sometimes is combined with the consumption of pollen or vertebrate blood (Fig. 9.3).
- 2015, Catherine A. Tofy, Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World's Most Captivating Birds:
- Thus, nectarivory as a specialized diet is rare among parrot species and occurs in only a few isolated branches of the parrot phylogeny.