- or meat-eater (Latin, caro,
genitive carnis,
meaning meat or "flesh" and
vorare meaning "to devour"), is an
animal or
plant whose nutrition and
energy requirements...
-
Terminology often uses
either the
suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from
Latin vorare,
meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein)...
- The
order Insectivora (from
Latin insectum "insect" and
vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned
biological grouping within the
class of mammals. Some species...
-
swallowed alive and whole. The word
vorarephilia is
derived from the
Latin vorare (to "swallow" or "devour"), and
Ancient Gr**** φιλία (philía, "love"). Usually...
- environments. The word
omnivore derives from
Latin omnis 'all' and vora, from
vorare 'to eat or devour',
having been
coined by the
French and
later adopted by...
- The word
Carnivora is
derived from
Latin carō (stem carn-) 'flesh' and
vorāre 'to devour'. The
oldest known carnivoran line
mammals (Carnivoramorpha)...
- be warranted." The
genus name
Vermivora is from
Latin vermis "worm", and
vorare, "to devour", and the
specific chrysoptera is from
Ancient Gr**** khrusos...
- onux, "claw". The
specific oryzivorus is from
Latin oryza, "rice", and
vorare, "to devour"; an old name for this
species is "Rice Bird". The
English "Bobolink"...
-
Latin vomere vomit, vomition, vomitory,
vomitus vor-, vorac-
swallow Latin vorare,
vorax carnivore, carnivorous, devoration, devoré, devour, herbivore, herbivorous...
- "thrush", and viscivorus, "mistletoe eater",
comes from vis**** "mistletoe" and
vorare, "to devour". The bird's
liking for
mistletoe berries is also indicated...
