-vorous(word root) eatingExamples of words with the root -vorous: carnivorousAbused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree-voroussuff. Eating; feeding on: vermivorous.[From Latin -vorus, from vor?re, to swallow, devour.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-vorous adj combining form feeding on or devouring: carnivorous. [from Latin -vorus; related to vor?re to swallow up, devour] -vore n combining formCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014-vorous a combining form meaning ?eating, gaining sustenance from? that specified by the initial element: carnivorous. [