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nectarivore

Syllables: nec·tar·i·vore

nectarivore noun: an animal that principally eats nectar.

Noun

nectarivore (plural nectarivores)

  1. An animal that principally eats nectar.
    • Insects visiting flowers of H. spinosa can be divided into two guilds: nectarivores (small flies and ants) and pollinivores (bees and hoverflies), which differ in pollination attributes.1999, Ecology Abstracts, volume 25, Bethesda, Md.: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 107
    • During the same time that A[pis] m[ellifera] adansonii encounters on flowers were registered, we noted the type of floral products collected by this bee. This parameter was measured to determine if A. m. adansonii is strictly a pollinivore, nectarivore or pollinivore and nectarivore. This could...2015, Mazi Sanda, “Foraging and Pollination Behaviour of Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apidae) on Gossypium hirsutum L. (Malvaceae) Flowers at Dang (Naoundere, Cameroon)”, in...

Forms of nectarivore

pluralnectarivores

Origin of nectarivore

From nectar + -i- + -vore.

Questions about nectarivore

What does nectarivore mean?
Nectarivore means an animal that principally eats nectar.
What part of speech is nectarivore?
Nectarivore is a noun.
What is the plural of nectarivore?
The plural of nectarivore is nectarivores.

Words near nectarivore in the dictionary

  1. nectarinids
  2. nectariniid
  3. nectariniids
  4. nectarious
  5. nectarium
  6. nectarivore
  7. nectarivores
  8. nectarivorous
  9. nectarivory
  10. nectarize
  11. nectarized

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