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prettygoodword.livejournal.com2016-06-23 07:49 am
Thursday word: baccivorous
baccivorous (bak-SUV-er-uhs) - adj., feeding on berries.
Bears! Except they don't actually subsist on berries the way some species of birds do. It's a little hard to subsist entirely on berries in a temperate climate -- they aren't around long enough to feed on through even the summer. Coined around 1660 from Latin roots bacca, berry + -vorus, devouring.
When the blackberries ripened, my mother would send me out with a basket, not worrying about how much came to the house in my baccivorous hands.
---L.
Bears! Except they don't actually subsist on berries the way some species of birds do. It's a little hard to subsist entirely on berries in a temperate climate -- they aren't around long enough to feed on through even the summer. Coined around 1660 from Latin roots bacca, berry + -vorus, devouring.
When the blackberries ripened, my mother would send me out with a basket, not worrying about how much came to the house in my baccivorous hands.
---L.