English Explanatory Dictionary

-vorous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually eating, feeding on’

Pronunciation

/vəɹəs/

Word forms

-vorous

Etymology

From Latin -vorus + -ous.

Related words

-vore -phagous

Derived words

carnivorous graminivorous herbivorous infovorous locavorous plurivorous
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