a. [f. L. fungi-, fungus + -vor-us devouring + -OUS.] Feeding on mushrooms or fungi.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., let. xlix. (1828), IV. 492. Among the phytiphagous insects the fungivorous ones form about a twentieth.
1849. Hardy, in Proc. Brew. Nat. Club, II. No. 7. 361. Other species whose larvæ are considered … to be either fungivorous or saprophagous.
