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adj. 1. feeding on bees; bee-eating. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. aurum gold + vorare to devour. ] Gold-devouring. [ R. ] H. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bacca berry + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. calx lime + vorare to devour. ] Eroding, or eating into, limestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh + varare to devour. ] Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cepa an onion + varare to devour. ] Feeding upon onions. [ R. ] Sterling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. culter, cultri, knife + vorare to devour. ] Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. equus horse + vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore. ] Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fucus + L. vorare to eat. ] (Zool.) Eating fucus or other seaweeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fungus + vorare to eat greedily: cf. F. fongivore. ] (Zool.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gramen, graminis, grass + vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. granum grain + vorare to devour: cf. F. granivore. ] Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Insectivora. ] Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: (a) to plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc. (b) to the Insectivora, and many bats, birds, and reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. omnivorus; omnis all + vorate to eat greedily. See Voracious. ] 1. All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; an omnivorous intellect. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Specifically: (Zool.), Eating both animal and vegetable food. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Om*niv"o*rous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. os, ossis, bone + vorare to devour: cf. F. ossivore. ] Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. panis bread + vorare to devour. ] Eating bread; subsisting on bread. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Phyto- + L. vorare to eat greedily. ] Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. piscis a fish + vorare to devour: cf. F. piscivore. ] (Zool.) Feeding or subsisting on fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pupa + L. vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Feeding on the pupæ of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sanguis + vorare to devour. ] Subsisting on blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sanguis blood + vorare to devour. ] (Zool.) Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. savoureux, OF. saveros, L. saporosus. Cf. Saporous, and see Savor, n. ] Having a savor; savory. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]