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Words with -vore/-vorous

Hello everybody!
Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes?

Thanks for your help!
Pete
  

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[nq:1]Hello everybody! Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes?[/nq]
Frugivore = something that eats fruit
Insectivore = something eats insects

johnF
"Linguistics studies a living language as if it were a dead language, and native language as if it were an alien tongue(.)"
Marxism
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[nq:1]Hello everybody! Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes? Thanks for your help! Pete[/nq]
Piscivore
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[nq:2]Hello everybody! Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes?[/nq]
[nq:1]Frugivore = something that eats fruit Insectivore = something eats insects[/nq]
I'd forgotten about insectivore.
But isn't this a fairly open-ended exercise? (That is, since legitimate words are formed this way all the
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[nq:1]But isn't this a fairly open-ended exercise? (That is, since legitimate words are formed this way all the time, one presumably could create a long list of edible things and form an equally long list of words by adding the suffix "vore".)[/nq]
Oh, yeah, 'course it is! But we need to get the established ones out of the way first to answer the original question before the thread
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[nq:1]Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes?[/nq]
Richard Lederer describes himself as a "verbivore".

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[nq:2]But isn't this a fairly open-ended exercise? (That is, since ... equally long list of words by adding the suffix "vore".)[/nq]
[nq:1]Oh, yeah, 'course it is! But we need to get the established ones out of the way first to answer the original question before the thread can degenerate into the silly ones and the ones used to show off a poster's knowledge of Latin root
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[nq:1]Hello everybody! Apart from omnivore/omnivorous, carnivore/carnivorous and herbivore/herbivorous, are there any other words ending with these suffixes? Thanks for your help! Pete[/nq]
Courtesy of OED, the *vore search yields:
1 carnivore
2 detritivore
3 devore
4 herbivore
5 insectivore
6 ivor(e, ivorey, ivorie
7 -ivore
8 mucivore
9 nectarivore, n.
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[nq:1]On 03 Mar 2005, John Flynn wrote Fairy nuff... (I'm going to slip in "coprovore", as in "He stood there exhibiting the happy visage of a coprovore".)[/nq]
Lenny Bruce's famous "SEG".
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Harvey Van Sickle typed thusly:
[nq:1]On 03 Mar 2005, John Flynn wrote[/nq]
[nq:2](snip) Oh, yeah, 'course it is! But we need to ... used to show off a poster's knowledge of Latin roots.[/nq]
[nq:1]Fairy nuff... (I'm going to slip in "coprovore", as in "He stood there exhibiting the happy visage of a coprovore".)[/nq]
There's surely no need for coprovore as we already have copropha
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[nq:1]Harvey Van Sickle typed thusly:[/nq]
[nq:2](I'm going to slip in "coprovore", as in "He stood there exhibiting the happy visage of a coprovore".)[/nq]
[nq:1]There's surely no need for coprovore as we already have coprophagist.[/nq]
I agree that there's no need for it, but that doesn't mean I can't use it anyway...
[nq:1]How about Marmitovore?[/nq]
I'd never eat tha

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