💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Plurivorous"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| polytrophic | (biology) Of bacteria etc.: feeding on multiple types of food, or obtaining nutrients in more than one way |
| ambivorous | (chiefly biology) That feeds on a variety of foods of different kinds. |
| euryxenous | (biology, of a parasite) Having a broad range of hosts |
| oligoxenous | (biology, of a parasite) Having several hosts during its life cycle |
| plurispecific | (ecology) Composed of (similar) organisms of many different species |
| bitrophic | Describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite. |
| monoxenousnoun | (biology, of a parasite) Living on only one kind of host |
| tritrophic | (ecology) Describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite that feeds on a third parasite. |
| heteroecious | (biology) Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts. |
| heteroxenous | (biology) parasitic to two different types of host (typically as part of a complex life cycle) |
| pluritropic | Attracted to, or affected by several different things |
| amphizoicnoun | (biology) Able to exist either as a parasite or as a free-living organism |
| idiobiontnoun | An organism which is a parasite on an immobile host |
| oioxenous | (biology, of a parasite) Having a single species of host |
| planktotrophic | (biology) That feeds on plankton |
| heterecious | (biology) living on one host at one stage (or generation) and then upon another in the next |
| microbivorous | (biology) Subsisting on microbes |
| pantrophic | (of a microorganism etc) Able to thrive in many different environments. |
| microbiverous | Alternative form of microbivorous. [(biology) Subsisting on microbes] |
| biotrophic | (biology) Describing a parasite or symbiont that needs its host in order to stay alive. |
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