Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cambivore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cam-bi-vore
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

Example Sentences

"Other nutritional subgroups, represented in smaller numbers, were cambivores (phloem and cortex feeders), detritrivores (necrophagous species) and wood borers (xylophagous species)."
"On average, obligate predators were more negatively affected than cambivores and facultative predators."
"Assemblages of clear-cut and old-growth stands were similar, with groups of 'cambivores' and 'obligate saproxylics' differing from those of uncut stands, and related to greater abundance of the latter in old growth habitats with large volumes of suitable dead wood."

Inflected Forms

cambivores (plural)

Questions

What does cambivore mean?: Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

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