- 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)...
-
swallowed alive and whole. The word
vorarephilia is
derived from the
Latin vorare (to "swallow" or "devour"), and
Ancient Gr**** φιλία (philía, "love"). Usually...
- The
order Insectivora (from
Latin insectum "insect" and
vorare "to eat") is a now-abandoned
biological grouping within the
class of mammals. Some species...
- 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)...
-
Vermivore (from
Latin vermi,
meaning "worm" and
vorare, "to devour") is a
zoological term for
animals that eat
worms (including annelids, nematodes, and...
- be warranted." The
genus name
Vermivora is from
Latin vermis "worm", and
vorare, "to devour", and the
specific chrysoptera is from
Ancient Gr**** khrusos...
-
Herbivora is
derived from
Latin herba 'small plant, herb' and vora, from
vorare 'to eat, devour'.
Herbivory is a form of
consumption in
which an organism...
- word for poison[citation needed], and the
suffix -vore from the
Latin word
vorare,
meaning to eat, or to devour; therefore, a
virivore is an
organism that...
