Cambivore

Quick meaning: Cambivore is a noun meaning (biology, rare) Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

Meaning

(biology, rare) Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

Example Sentences

On average, obligate predators were more negatively affected than cambivores and facultative predators.

Other nutritional subgroups, represented in smaller numbers, were cambivores (phloem and cortex feeders), detritrivores (necrophagous species) and wood borers (xylophagous species).

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.

Word Forms

• cambivores

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cambium, herbivore, florivore, fungivore, algivore, heterophyte.

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