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-vorous

  1. a combining form meaning “eating, gaining sustenance from” that specified by the initial element:

    carnivorous.



-vorous

combining form

  1. feeding on or devouring

    carnivorous

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • -vore, combining_form:in_noun:countable
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -vorous1

< Latin -vorus devouring; -ous
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -vorous1

from Latin -vorus; related to vorāre to swallow up, devour
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Example Sentences

Jeremy Vorous refused to let a probation officer inside his home, was repeatedly uncooperative with probation officials, had an illicit machete in his home, and was still allowed to retain his pretrial release.

From Slate

When young, Jeff would challenge himself to define a word, chasing it down through the dictionary: Fishwife to shrew to shrewmouse to insectivorous to vorous.

Legendary Montana guide Rusty Vorous once hypothesized that you could tail-tie a Missouri trout to any other trout in the West, and the Missouri trout would drag the other up the river until it drowned.

Words having the following terminations are usually accented on the antepenult, or third syllable from the end: cracy, ferous, fluent, flous, honal, gony, grapher, graphy, loger, logist, logy, loquy, machy, mathy, meter, metry, nomy, nomy, parous, pathy, phony, scopy, strophe, tomy, trophy, vomous, vorous.

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