ossivorous

ossivorous
feeding on bones

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  • Ossivorous — Os*siv o*rous, a. [L. os, ossis, bone + vorare to devour: cf. F. ossivore.] Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ossivorous — adjective Bone eating, of an animal given to chewing on bones …   Wiktionary

  • ossivorous — ossivˈorous adjective Feeding on or consuming bones • • • Main Entry: ↑osseous …   Useful english dictionary

  • Feeding and Eating — Like many people, I enjoy eating perhaps too much so. This list of 113 words describes different things one could eat, although a human would have to be pretty desperate to eat lice or limestone. Then again, I ve eaten at McDonald s hundreds of… …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • bone —    1. obsolete    to steal    Bone may mean a finger, which has overtones of stealing, as in finger blight, or there could be an allusion to the ossivorous habits of canines:     From her grave in Mary bone They ve come and boned poor Mary. (Hood …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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