At 09:10 PM 6/23/98 PDT, you wrote:
>Dear Paul, dear other shellers
>
>I think the word should named "vermivorius" as carnivor means
>eating meat and herbivor means eating plants and so on (vegeterian).
>vorius means eating and worm or vermi means a worm. As it might be
>a rarely used term I think you can't find it any dictionary, but you
>can guess it.
>So I think the right word will be "vermivorius" in English.
>But maybe there are holes caused of worms or some sponge,
>as old and large shells of Conus pulcher like to have, you should
>create another word. My English is not so goot that I can give
>you more informations for guessing and thinking.
> Hope to get answers
>
>yours Helmut from Innsbruck
>may
>
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>> Paul Monfils wrote:
>> >
>> > <I looked in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary between voracious and
>> > vortex but could not find vormavorius.>
>> >
>> > Tom, look between verminous and vermouth, and you'll find
>> > vermivorous. :-)  (= Feeding on worms)
>>
>>
>>
>> I did, and there it is!!!  Thanks, although with my memory these days,
>> who knows if I'll have use of such a nice .25 cent word in the future.
>>
>> Tom
>>The idea is right but the spelling is wrong.  It should be vermivorous.
Horatio
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