Vorous Words, Quiz #3

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  1. Eating any kind or many different kinds of food, including both plants and animals.
    (a) ossivorous (b) panivorous (c) piscivorous
    (d) omnivorous (e) pomivorous
  2. Feeding on or devouring birds.
    (a) oryzivore (b) ovivore (c) ornithivore
    (d) phytivore (e) ranivore
  3. Feeding on or consuming wood.
    (a) zoosuccivory (b) vermivory (c) sanguivory
    (d) pollnivory (e) xylivory
  4. The eating of fish or subsisting on fish.
    (a) quercivorous (b) gallivory (c) piscivorous
    (d) plurivorous (e) pomivorous
  5. Feeding on plants or vegetable matter.
    (a) panivory (b) phytivory (c) ovivory
    (d) oryzivory (e) ornithivory
  6. The eating of such things as filth, refuse, or the waste parts or leavings of something like a butchered animal.
    (a) oryzivorous (b) phytivorous (c) ornithivorous
    (d) offivorous (e) pinivorous
  7. Feeding on apples.
    (a) quercivorous (b) pomivorous (c) radicivorous
    (d) ranivorous (e) pupivorous
  8. Feeding on eggs or eating the flesh of sheep.
    (a) plurivorous (b) radicivorous (c) ovivorous
    (d) pomivorous (e) pinivorous
  9. The consumption of bread as a source of food or living primarily on bread.
    (a) piscivory (b) ossivory (c) omnivory
    (d) phytivory (e) panivory
  10. Eating snakes, lizards, etc.
    (a) vermivorous (b) voracious (c) serpentivorous
    (d) ornithivorous (e) xylivorous

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The words in this quiz are located at this vor-, -vory unit.

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