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

See also

• Vorarephilia
• phagy

External links

• San Diego Zoo on "vores"

Eating behaviors | Biology prefixes and suffixes

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