feeding on, eating: omnivorous
Origin of -vorous
Classical Latin -vorus from vorare: see voracious-vorous
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-vorous
suffix
Eating; feeding on: vermivorous.
Origin of -vorous
From Latin -vorus from vorāre to swallow, devourTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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