Word.ws English Dictionary

vermivorous

vermivorous adjective: feeding on worms.

Adjective

vermivorous (not comparable)

  1. Feeding on worms.
    • The venoms of some vermivorous species contain proteolytic enzymes which cause local necrosis at the site of injection in vertebrates.1969, Frank E Firth, The Encyclopedia of Marine Resources

vermivorous meaning in Urdu and Bengali

vermivorous in Urdu

کیڑے خور

vermivorous in Bengali

কৃমি, পোকা খেয়ে জীবনধারণকারী

Origin of vermivorous

From vermi- + -vorous.

Words that rhyme with vermivorous

26 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about vermivorous

What does vermivorous mean?
Vermivorous means feeding on worms.
What is vermivorous in Urdu?
Vermivorous in Urdu is کیڑے خور. See Vermivorous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vermivorous?
Vermivorous is an adjective.

Words near vermivorous in the dictionary

  1. vermisols
  2. vermistabilization
  3. vermistatin
  4. vermivore
  5. vermivores
  6. vermivorous
  7. vermiwash
  8. vermiwashes
  9. vermix
  10. Vermont
  11. Vermont carry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vermivorous (page history and authors); vermivorous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vermivorous (Bengali 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: “vermivorous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vermivorous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.