-vore

See also: vore

English

Etymology

From the Latin vorare (“to devour”).

Suffix

-vore

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

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -vore

general diets

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

specific diets

• amphibivore - amphibians
• corallivore - corals
• 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
• saprovore - dead or decaying matter
• sanguinivore - blood
• spongivore - sea sponges
• cytovore - cytoplasma (cellular)

Related terms

• -vorous

Translations

an animal identified by their kind of diet

• Arabic: آكِل m (ʔākil)
• Catalan: -vor m
• Greek: -φάγος (el) m or f (-fágos), -βόρος (el) m or f (-vóros)
• Hungarian: -evő (hu)
• Old English: -ǣta m
• Portuguese: -voro
• Swedish: -ätare (sv) c

See also

• -phagy

References

• 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"

Anagrams

• Over, over, over-, rove

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin -vorus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔʁ/
• Homophone: -vores

Suffix

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

1. -vore
2. -vorous

Derived terms

French terms suffixed with -vore

Further reading

• “-vore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯o.re/, [u̯ɔrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vo.re/, [vore] (stressed on the antepenult)

Suffix

-vore

1. vocative masculine singular of -vorus