Eating Words

When you know that vore means eat, you will know that insectivores feed on grasshoppers, moths, and butterflies, mosquitoes, bees, and plain-old flies. When you know that carni means meat, you will know that carnivores eat snakes and lizards, deer and lamb, carrion, birds, fish, and ham. When you know that herb means plant, you will know that herbivores CAN'T eat anything that moves on a foot, just foods that spring up from a root. When you know that omni means all, you will know that omnivores call Everything they can suck or chew— sometimes even me or you— food.