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cambivores

cambivores is the plural of cambivore.

Meaning of cambivore

Noun

cambivore (plural cambivores)

  1. (rare) Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.
    • Other nutritional subgroups, represented in smaller numbers, were cambivores (phloem and cortex feeders), detritrivores (necrophagous species) and wood borers (xylophagous species).2015, Jon Andersson, “Wood-inhabiting beetles in low stumps, high stumps and logs on boreal clear-cuts: implications for dead wood management”, in PLoS One

Questions about cambivores

What is cambivores the plural of?
Cambivores is the plural of cambivore.

Words near cambivores in the dictionary

  1. cambistry
  2. cambists
  3. cambium
  4. cambiums
  5. cambivore
  6. cambivores
  7. camblet
  8. camblets
  9. Cambo
  10. Cambodia
  11. Cambodian

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