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corallivores

corallivores is the plural 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

Questions about corallivores

What is corallivores the plural of?
Corallivores is the plural of corallivore.

Words near corallivores in the dictionary

  1. coralliophilid
  2. coralliophilids
  3. corallite
  4. corallites
  5. corallivore
  6. corallivores
  7. corallivorous
  8. corallivory
  9. Corallo
  10. corallochytrean
  11. corallochytreans

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