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ambivore

ambivore noun: an animal that feeds on two varieties of food.

Noun

ambivore (plural ambivores)

  1. An animal that feeds on two varieties of food.
    • In these latter categories, long basiconic sensilla numbers were similar and short basiconic sensilla were abundant in graminivores but few in ambivores.1989 May, R.G. Bland, “Antennal sensilla of Acrididae (Orthoptera) in relation to subfamily and food preference”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 82, number 3
    • The diet of Tmethis and Ocneridia contained a higher percentage of Poaceae than the other species and are considered to be ambivores.2013, Naima Benkenana, Abboud Harrat, Daniel Petit, “Analysis of the number of sensilla on the labrum and the diet of grasshoppers belonging to the family Pamphagidae (Orthoptera)”, in European...

Forms of ambivore

pluralambivores

Origin of ambivore

From ambi- + -vore.

Questions about ambivore

What does ambivore mean?
Ambivore means an animal that feeds on two varieties of food.
What part of speech is ambivore?
Ambivore is a noun.
What is the plural of ambivore?
The plural of ambivore is ambivores.

Words near ambivore in the dictionary

  1. ambiversion
  2. ambivert
  3. ambiverted
  4. ambivertedness
  5. ambiverts
  6. ambivore
  7. ambivores
  8. ambivorous
  9. ambix
  10. amble
  11. Amblecote

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