Definition of Fungivorous. Meaning of Fungivorous. Synonyms of Fungivorous

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Definition of Fungivorous

Fungivorous
Fungivorous Fun*giv"o*rous, a. [L. fungus + vorare to eat freedily: cf. F. fangivore.] (Zo["o]l.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

Meaning of Fungivorous from wikipedia

- Fungivory or mycophagy is the process of organisms consuming fungi. Many different organisms have been recorded to gain their energy from consuming fungi...
- suggested that saproxylicity was the most common feeding strategy, with fungivorous species in particular appearing to dominate. Many fossil sites worldwide...
- Okada 1938 (Diptera; Mycetophiloidea; Keroplatidae), a bioluminescent fungivorous insect". Entomologie Heute. 26: 139–149. Wikiquote has quotations related...
- the Potoroidae are almost unique among vertebrates in being largely fungivorous, but these seem to have arisen as relatively recent adaptations from...
- developmental stages of various insects but some species are herbivorous or fungivorous. Members of this family are elongated, cylindrical mites with a large...
- with small mycophagous mammals. Hypogeous sporocarps depend on small fungivorous mammals to dis**** their spores since they are underground and cannot...
- Thrips are a functionally diverse group; many of the known species are fungivorous. A small proportion of the species are serious pests of commercially...
- trees, and in leaf litter, and members are known to be pollenivorous or fungivorous. Australiodes Endrödy-Younga, 1960, New Zealand Globorentonium Lawrence...
- Scardiinae are a subfamily of moth of the family Tineidae. Scardiinae are fungivorous and are characterised by larval features and lack of gnathos. Afroscardia...
- Megalodacne is a genus of fungivorous beetles in the family Erotylidae. Adult beetles of the genus Megalodacne range in size from 9 to 22 millimetres...