Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeding on fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Feeding upon fungi: applied to many insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
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- adjective
fungus -eating.
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Diversity patterns of fungivorous insects: comparison between glaciated vs. refugial boreal forests.
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