Etymology

limivorous

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Today it means: Eating mud or soil for organic matter in it. Full definition →

Latin līmus
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  1. Latin · derived fromlīmus“mud”
  2. English todaylimivorous

Latin līmus (“mud”) + -vorous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.