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Polyphagous :: Polyphagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals..

Baccivorous :: Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds..

Subsisting :: Subsisted (imp. & p. p.) of Subsis.

Plant-eating :: Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle..

Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.

Need :: Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

Obtain :: Obtain (v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer..

Eleemosynary :: Eleemosynary (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.

Subsist :: Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsis.

Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..

Agreement :: Agreement (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council..

Sanguinivorous :: Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.

Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..

Sportule :: Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.

Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..

Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort..

Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.

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