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folivore

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈfəʊlɪvɔː(ɹ)/

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noun

Meaning 1

A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin folium (“a leaf”) + -vore, Latin vorō (“to devour”).

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: folívoro — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Asturian: filófago — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Catalan: folívor — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Chinese Mandarin: 食葉動物 /食叶动物 (shíyè dòngwù) — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Finnish: lehtiensyöjä — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Finnish: folivori — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • French: folivore — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • French: phyllophage — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Galician: folívoro — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Galician: filófago — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Hindi: पर्णाहारी (parṇāhārī) — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Icelandic: laufæta — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Italian: folivoro — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Maltese: folivoru — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Persian: برگخواری — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Polish: liściożerca — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Portuguese: folívoro — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Spanish: folívoro — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Spanish: filófago — herbivore that eats mostly foliage
  • Turkish: yaprakçıl — herbivore that eats mostly foliage