Word.ws English Dictionary

radicivorous

radicivorous adjective: that feeds on plant roots.

Adjective

radicivorous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) That feeds on plant roots.
    • Of these, many are radicivorous, but they are easily distinguished from the Hepialideous larvae […]1843, Henry Noel Humphreys, John Obadiah Westwood, British moths and their transformations, arranged in a ser. of […] , volume 1

radicivorous meaning in Tamil

radicivorous in Tamil

வேருண்ணுகின்ற

Origin of radicivorous

From radic- + -i- + -vorous, from Latin rādīc-, oblique stem of rādīx.

Questions about radicivorous

What does radicivorous mean?
Radicivorous means that feeds on plant roots.
What is radicivorous in Tamil?
Radicivorous in Tamil is வேருண்ணுகின்ற. See Radicivorous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is radicivorous?
Radicivorous is an adjective.

Words near radicivorous in the dictionary

  1. radicicol
  2. radicicolous
  3. radiciferous
  4. radiciflorous
  5. radiciform
  6. radicivorous
  7. radicle
  8. radicles
  9. radiclib
  10. radiclibs
  11. radicofunctional

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: radicivorous (page history and authors); radicivorous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “radicivorous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/radicivorous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.