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What (who) is -vorous - definition
WIKIMEDIA LIST ARTICLE
Food-mass feeder; Food-mass feeders; Monophagy; Polyphagy; Aphytophagy; Aphytophagia; Monophagia; Polyphagous; Aphytophagous; Phagia; -vore; -vorous; Eating behavior; List of vores; Vore suffix; Feeding behavior; Feeding behaviors; Feeding behaviour; Feeding behaviours; Bulk feeding; Bulk feeder; Phagy; -Phagy; Opportunistic feeder; Opportunistic feeders; Invertivore; -phagy; Appendix:Eating and feeding; List of feeding behaviors; Feeding Behaviour; Exophage; Exophagic; Exophagy
![A [[mosquito]] drinking blood ([[hematophagy]]) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anopheles stephensi.jpeg?width=200 "A [[mosquito]] drinking blood ([[hematophagy]]) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste)")
![[[Hummingbird]]s primarily drink nectar](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg?width=200 "[[Hummingbird]]s primarily drink nectar")
![A [[krill]] filter feeding](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Filterkrillkils2.gif?width=200 "A [[krill]] filter feeding")
![A [[red kangaroo]] eating grass](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg?width=200 "A [[red kangaroo]] eating grass")
![A ''[[Myrmicaria brunnea]]'' feeding on [[sugar]] crystals](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Myrmicaria brunnea.jpg?width=200 "A ''[[Myrmicaria brunnea]]'' feeding on [[sugar]] crystals")
![The [[robberfly]] is an [[insectivore]], shown here having grabbed a [[leaf beetle]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pegesimallus sp robberfly.jpg?width=200 "The [[robberfly]] is an [[insectivore]], shown here having grabbed a [[leaf beetle]]")
![An [[American robin]] eating a worm](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robin eating a worm in spring.jpg?width=200 "An [[American robin]] eating a worm")
![A [[rosy boa]] eating a mouse whole](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rosy boa eating.JPG?width=200 "A [[rosy boa]] eating a mouse whole")
-vorous
[v(?)r?s]
¦ combining form feeding on a specified food: carnivorous.
Derivatives
-vora v(?)r? combining form in names of groups.
-vore v?: combining form in names of individuals.
Origin
from L. -vorus (from vorare 'devour') + -ous.
Polyphagy
·noun The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
-phagy
¦ combining form denoting the practice of eating a specified food: anthropophagy.
Origin
from Gk -phagia, from phagein 'eat'.
Wikipedia
List of feeding behaviours
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin vorare, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν (phagein), meaning "to eat".
