-vore
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The suffix vore comes from the Latin word vorare, meaning 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.
The following is a list of words ending in vore, as well what kind of diet the word indicates.
- Carnivore - meat
- Detritivore - decomposing material
- Folivore - leaves
- Frugivore - fruit
- Granivore - seeds
- Herbivore - plants
- Insectivore - insects
- Limnivore - mud
- Nectarivore - nectar
- Mucivore - plant juices
- Mycovore - fungi
- Omnivore - plants and meat
- Palynivore - pollen
- Piscivore - fish
- Sanguinivore - blood
