Etymology

lignivorous

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Today it means: That feeds on wood. Full definition →

Latin lignum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlignum“wood”
  2. English todaylignivorous

From Latin lignum (“wood”) + -vorous.

Words from the same roots

Latinlignum all →

ligninlignumligniformlignifyligniperdousligno-lignum vitae

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.