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This question were suggested by "Schott's Food & Drink
Miscellany" by Ben Schott.

If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?

Cep
Equ
Frond
Fruct
Fum
Gallin
Lign
Mell
Nuc
Omn
Oryz
Oss
Ov
Pin
Pisc
Pom
Radic
Sangu

 

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Jim Ward wrote:

> This question were suggested by "Schott's Food & Drink
> Miscellany" by Ben Schott.
>
> If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>
> Cep

Mushrooms?

> Equ

I want to say horses . . .

> Fruct

Fruit

> Omn

Everything.

> Ov

Eggs.

> Pin
> Pisc

Fish

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In article <p89hs0lh6cmbgcmsv3952qek11em7569mq@4ax.com>, tomcatpolka@NyOaShPoAoM.com
says...
> This question were suggested by "Schott's Food & Drink
> Miscellany" by Ben Schott.
>
> If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>
> Cep
> Equ
horsies

> Frond
ferns

> Fruct
fruit

> Fum
> Gallin
> Lign
> Mell
honey

> Nuc
> Omn
everything

> Oryz
> Oss
bones

> Ov
eggs

> Pin
> Pisc
fishies

> Pom
apples?

> Radic
roots

> Sangu
blood

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In rec.games.trivia Jim Ward <tomcatpolka@nyoashpoaom.com> wrote:
:
: If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?

: Fum -- smoke
: Gallin -- fowl (or Frenchmen)
: Lign -- wood
: Nuc -- nuts

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:27:21 +0000, Keith Willoughby
<keith@flat222.org> wrote:

>> If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>>
>> Cep
>
>Mushrooms?

Schott says onions. Also that a knife swallower is cultr-ivorous.

>> Equ
>
>I want to say horses . . .

Tastes like chicken.

>> Fruct
>
>Fruit
>
>> Omn
>
>Everything.
>
>> Ov
>
>Eggs.

Schott also says sheep (?)

>> Pin

Schott says pine kernels (good on pizza)

>> Pisc
>
>Fish

 

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:20:24 GMT, Marc Dashevsky
<usenet@MarcDashevsky.com> wrote:

>> If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>>
>> Cep
>> Equ
>horsies
>
>> Frond
>ferns

Schott says leaves. Seems to be close enough.

>
>> Fruct
>fruit
>
>> Fum
>> Gallin
>> Lign
>> Mell
>honey
>
>> Nuc
>> Omn
>everything
>
>> Oryz
>> Oss
>bones
>
>> Ov
>eggs
>
>> Pin
>> Pisc
>fishies
>
>> Pom
>apples?

Yes.

>> Radic
>roots
>
>> Sangu
>blood

Schott agrees with the rest of yours!

 

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Jim Ward wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:27:21 +0000, Keith Willoughby
> <keith@flat222.org> wrote:
>
>
>>>If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>>> Ov
>>
>>Eggs.
>
> Schott also says sheep (?)

As in ovine. Makes sense.

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:55:21 +0000 (UTC), schultr@mail.biu.ack.il
(Richard Schultz) wrote:

>In rec.games.trivia Jim Ward <tomcatpolka@nyoashpoaom.com> wrote:
>:
>: If you are ... -ivorous, then you eat ... ?
>
>: Fum -- smoke

Schott says snake (can't Google it up, though).

>: Gallin -- fowl (or Frenchmen)

Who'd want to eat a Frenchman? They'd be all smokey tasting!

>: Lign -- wood
>: Nuc -- nuts


Schott agrees with both. This leaves oryzivorous, which means "rice
eating".