world according to cat

[calimac]

She is become an arachnivore. Played with a spider, and then ate it.

Now, if she'd only become an insectivore as well, we'd be even happier.

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[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Neither term for "spider eater" appears to be established usage, but I think stylistically I should prefer "araneivore" (from Latin aranea, "spider") to "arachnivore," to parallel "insectivore" (no one says "entomivore"). All the other -vore words I can think of in zoology also seem to use Latin prefixes too: carnivore, fructivore, herbivore, piscivore, sanguinivore. . . .