- nucivorous
- adj. nut-eating.
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nucivorous /nū-sivˈə-rəs/ (zoology)adjectiveNut-eatingORIGIN: L nux, nucis nut, and vorāre to devour
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
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nucivorous — nut eating Feeding and Eating … Phrontistery dictionary
Feeding and Eating — Like many people, I enjoy eating perhaps too much so. This list of 113 words describes different things one could eat, although a human would have to be pretty desperate to eat lice or limestone. Then again, I ve eaten at McDonald s hundreds of… … Phrontistery dictionary
nuciferous — a. yielding nuts. ♦ nuciform, a. nut shaped. ♦ nucivorous, a. nut eating … Dictionary of difficult words
