Saturday, 15 August 2015

Vorous


Definition
allotriophagy
craving for strange foods
androphagy
cannibalism
anthropophaginian
cannibal
anthropophagous
eating humans
aphagia
inability to eat or swallow
apivorous
eating bees
arachnivorous
feeding on spiders
autocoprophagy
eating one's own feces
autophagy
feeding on body's own tissues
baccivorous
eating berries
batrachivorous
frog-eating
bibliophagist
one who devours books, literally or figuratively
calcivorous
feeding on or living in limestone
cardophagus
donkey; something that eats thistles
carnivorous
eating flesh
carpophagous
fruit-eating
cepivorous
onion-eating
chthonophagia
eating dirt
comburivorous
consuming by fire
coprophagous
eating feces
creatophagous
carnivorous; flesh-eating
creophagous
flesh-eating; carnivorous
detritivore
animal that eats decomposing organic matter
dysphagia
pathological difficulty in swallowing
endophagy
cannibalism within a tribe; eating away from within
entomophagous
eating insects
equivorous
consuming horseflesh
exophagy
cannibalism outside one's own group
foliophagous
eating leaves; eating folios of books
formivorous
eating ants
fructivorous
feeding on fruit
frugivorous
eating fruit
fucivorous
eating seaweed
galactophagist
milk drinker
gamophagia
destruction of one gamete by another
geophagy
practice of feeding on soil; dirt-eating
glossophagine
eating using the tongue
graminivorous
feeding on grass or cereals
granivorous
feeding on seeds
gumnivorous
feeding on tree saps
herbivorous
eating only plant matter
hippophagy
feeding on horses
homnivorous
eating humans
hylophagous
eating wood
hyperphagia
eating too much
ichthyophagous
fish-eating
insectivorous
eating insects
kreatophagia
eating of raw meat
larvivorous
feeding on larvae
lignivorous
feeding on wood
limivorous
eating mud
lithophagous
stone-swallowing; rock-boring; eating rock
lotophagous
feeding on lotuses; indolent; lazy; dreamy
mallophagous
eating wool or fleece
meconophagist
consumer of opium or heroin
meliphagous
feeding upon honey
mellivorous
honey-eating
merdivorous
dung-eating
microphagous
feeding on small creatures or plants
monophagous
feeding on only one type of food
mucivorous
feeding on plant juices
mycophagous
eating fungus
myristicivorous
feeding upon nutmegs
myrmecophagous
feeding on ants
necrophagous
feeding on the dead
nectarivorous
feeding on nectar
nucivorous
nut-eating
omnivorous
eating anything; eating both plant and animal matter
omophagy
eating of raw flesh as a ritual observance
onychophagist
nail-biter
ophiophagous
eating snakes
oryzivorous
rice-eating
ossivorous
feeding on bones
ostreophagous
oyster-eating
ovivorous
eating eggs
ovivorous
eating sheep
paedophage
eater of children
pagophagia
eating trays of ice to help offset iron deficiency
panivorous
bread-eating
pantophagy
omnivorousness
phthirophagous
lice-eating
phyllophagous
leaf-eating
phytivorous
feeding on plants
phytophagous
feeding on vegetable matter
piscivorous
fish-eating
placentophagy
eating of the placenta
plantivorous
plant-eating
plasmophagous
consuming plasma
poephagous
eating grass or herbs; herbivorous
poltophagy
prolonged chewing of food
polyphagous
eating many types of food
psomophagy
swallowing food without thorough chewing
radicivorous
eating roots
ranivorous
eating frogs
rhizophagous
root-eating
rhypophagy
eating filth
sanguivorous
blood-drinking
saprophagous
feeding on decaying material
sarcophagous
feeding on flesh; carnivorous
saurophagous
eating lizards
scatophagous
dung-eating
seminivorous
seed-eating
stercovorous
feeding on dung or excrement
thalerophagous
feeding on fresh vegetable matter
theophagy
sacramental consumption of a god
toxicophagous
eating poison
toxiphagous
poison-eating
univorous
living on only one host or source of food
vegetivorous
eating vegetables
vermivorous
eating worms
xerophagy
eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter
xylophagous
wood-eating
zoophagy
eating animals


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