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Vor Latin Verb Vorare Eat Ending Ivorous Shows

word VOR
meaning VOR comes from the Latin verb vorare, “to eat,” and the ending -ivorous shows up in words that refer to eaters of certain kinds of food. Frugivorous (for “fruit-eating”), granivorous (for “grain-eating”), and graminivorous (for “grass-eating”) aren't too rare, but you won't run across phytosuccivorous (“plant-sap-eating”) every day.

Tags: mwvb::root, mwvb::unit:4, mwvb::unit:4:root, obsidian_to_anki

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