Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alimentation | the act of feeding or being fed. |
| anthophilous | feeding upon or living among flowers eg the anthophilous parrots of Tasmania. |
| apivorous | eating bees. |
| autotroph | an organism that is able to manufacture its own food from inorganic substances. |
| autotrophic | capable of building up food materials from inorganic matter. |
| autotrophically | (Adv.) AUTOTROPHIC, capable of building up food materials from inorganic matter. |
| autotrophy | the state of being an autotroph, an organism that is able to manufacture its own food from inorganic substances. |
| auxotroph | an auxotrophic strain or individual, i.e. one requiring a specific growth substance beyond the minimum required for normal metabolism. |
| auxotrophic | requiring a specific growth substance beyond the minimum required for normal metabolism. |
| auxotrophy | the state of being auxotrophic, requiring a specific growth substance beyond the minimum required for normal metabolism. |
| baccivorous | eating berries. |
| bloodsucker | an animal that sucks blood. |
| carnivora | an order of flesh-eating mammals, including dogs, cats, bears, weasels, etc. |
| carnivore | an animal or plant that feeds on flesh. |
| carnivorous | feeding on animal tissues. |
| carnivorously | (Adv.) CARNIVOROUS, feeding on animal tissues. |
| carnivorousness | the state of being carnivorous. |
| carnivory | the state of being a carnivore. |
| chemautotroph | an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. |
| chemautotrophic | of or like a chemautotroph. |
| coprophagic | eating dung. |
| coprophagist | an eater of dung. |
| coprophagous | eating dung. |
| creophagous | flesh-eating, carnivorous. |
| detritovore | an organism that feeds on detritus. |
| fructivorous | feeding on fruit. |
| frugivore | an animal which primarily eats fruit. |
| frugivorous | eating fruit. |
| fucivorous | eating fruit. |
| graminivorous | feeding on grass or cereals. |
| granivore | an eater of grain. |
| granivorous | feeding on seeds. |
| haematophagous | of certain animals, feeding on blood. |
| hematophagous | of certain animals, feeding on blood. |
| herbivora | an extensive division of Mammalia, comprising animals that feed almost exclusively upon vegetation. |
| herbivore | an organism that eats plants or other autotrophic organisms. |
| herbivorous | eating plants. |
| herbivorously | (Adv.) HERBIVOROUS, eating plants. |
| herbivory | the eating of grass. |
| heterotroph | a secondary feeder eating plants or other animals. |
| heterotrophic | dependent on external sources of organic nutrients. |
| heterotrophy | the state of being a heterotroph, a secondary feeder eating plants or other animals. |
| holozoic | obtaining food by eating complex matter, in the manner of an animal. |
| ingestion | the act of taking eg food into the body. |
| ingestive | relating to ingestion, the act of taking eg food into the body. |
| insectivore | an animal that eats insects. |
| insectivorous | eating insects. |
| lignivorous | feeding on wood. |
| limivorous | feeding on mud. |
| lithophagous | stone-swallowing; rock-boring; eating rock. |
| megaherbivore | a large plant-eater. |
| meliphagous | feeding upon honey. |
| melliphagous | feeding upon honey. |
| mellivorous | honey-eating. |
| merdivorous | dung-eating. |
| monophagous | feeding on only one type of food. |
| mycetophagous | eating fungi. |
| mycophagous | eating fungus. |
| myristicivorous | feeding upon nutmegs. |
| myrmecophagous | feeding on ants. |
| necrophagous | feeding on the dead. |
| nectarivorous | eating nectar. |
| nucivorous | nut-eating. |
| nutrient | any nourishing substance. |
| oligophagous | eating only a few specific kinds of food. |
| omnivora | omnivores as a group. |
| omnivore | an omnivorous person or animal. |
| omnivorous | feeding on all kinds of food. |
| omnivorously | (Adv.) OMNIVOROUS. |
| omnivory | omnivorousness. |
| omophagous | eating raw flesh. |
| ophiophagous | eating snakes. |
| ossivorous | feeding on bones. |
| ostreophagous | oyster-eating. |
| pantophagist | an omnivore. |
| pantophagous | eating or requiring a variety of foods. |
| photoautotroph | an organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source. |
| phyllophagous | leaf-eating. |
| phytophagic | feeding on plants. |
| phytophagous | feeding on plants. |
| phytophagy | of insects, feeding on plants. |
| piscivore | an eater of fish. |
| piscivorous | fish-eating. |
| polyphagous | eating many types of food. |
| polytrophic | esp. of bacteria, obtaining food from several different organic sources. |
| predaceous | living by prey; predatory. |
| predaceousness | the state of being predaceous. |
| predaciousness | the state of being predacious. |
| predacity | being predacious, living by prey. |
| predatism | the state of preying on other animals. |
| predative | relating to predation. |
| predator | an animal that preys on another. |
| predatorily | (Adv.) PREDATORY, preying on other animals. |
| prototrophic | of bacteria, feeding directly on uncombined elements. |
| prototrophy | the state of being prototrophic. |
| radicivorous | eating roots. |
| ranivorous | eating frogs. |
| rhizophagous | feeding on roots. |
| sanguinivorous | drinking blood. |
| sanguivorous | drinking blood. |
| saprophagous | feeding on decaying material. |
| saprozoic | feeding on dead or decaying organic material. |
| sarcophagous | feeding on flesh; carnivorous. |
| scatophagous | habitually feeding on dung, coprophagous. |
| stenophagous | of animals, feeding on a single type or limited variety of food. |
| toxicophagous | eating poison. |
| toxiphagous | eating poison. |
| trophallactic | relating to trophallaxis, mutual exchange of nutriment in symbiosis. |
| trophallaxis | mutual exchange of nutriment in symbiosis. |
| trophic | relating to nutrition. |
| trophically | (Adv.) TROPHIC, relating to nutrition. |
| trophobiosis | exchange of nutriment in symbiotic relationship. |
| trophotactic | relating to trophotaxis, chemotaxis and chemotropism where the stimulating substance is food. |
| trophotaxis | chemotaxis and chemotropism where the stimulating substance is food. |
| vermivorous | eating worms. |
| xylophagous | wood-eating. |
| zoophagan | an animal that feeds on animal food. |
| zoophagous | feeding on animals. |
| zootrophic | of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals. |
| zootrophy | the feeding of animals. |