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ambivores

ambivores is the plural of ambivore.

Meaning of ambivore

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

Questions about ambivores

What is ambivores the plural of?
Ambivores is the plural of ambivore.

Words near ambivores in the dictionary

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

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