Definition of fungivorous in English:
fungivorous
adjective fʌŋˈdʒɪv(ə)rəsˌfənˈjivərəs
Feeding on fungi or mushrooms.
a fungivorous arthropod such as a millipede
Example sentencesExamples
- These compounds appear to play a role in defending sclerotia from attack by fungivorous insects.
- The members of the tripunctata species group have diverse feeding habits; some are fungivorous and some are ground feeders associated with fallen flowers, small fruits, and decaying pulpy vegetation.
- The goal of this study was to manage the soil food web to enhance population levels of microbivorous and fungivorous nematodes in the spring so that their feeding would release N immobilized in the primary decomposer biomass.
- Hundreds of California species either feed directly upon the e decomposer fungi, or predate the fungivorous taxa.
- The appearance of only a few predaceous snare building insects among the Mycetophilidae, of which about two thousand species are known to be mostly fungivorous, is in itself remarkable.
- It possesses a central columella that is rich in lipids and is a choice food item for fungivorous mammals.
- We are studying the ecology of two groups of obligately fungivorous insects, cecid flies, and ciid beetles.
- Finding sporocarps may be time consuming, which would contribute to the assumed high degree of polyphagy in fungivorous insects in general.