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coralivore

coralivore is the alternative form of corallivore.

Meaning of corallivore

Noun

corallivore (plural corallivores)

  1. Any animal that eats coral.
    • Acanthaster is potentially the most important corallivore in the eastern Pacific, due to its large size and high rate of consumption (about 0.5 m” of coral tissue per month). This corallivore is especially interesting ecologically because of its preferential feeding behavior; it tends to prey on...2013, U. Seeliger, Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America, page 293

Forms of coralivore

pluralcoralivores

Questions about coralivore

What is coralivore the alternative form of?
Coralivore is the alternative form of corallivore.

Words near coralivore in the dictionary

  1. Coraline
  2. coralise
  3. coralised
  4. coralises
  5. coralising
  6. coralivore
  7. coralivores
  8. coralivorous
  9. coralize
  10. coralized
  11. coralizes

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