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- noun Plural form of
photovore .
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Examples
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But photovores stood outside the food chain, inde-pendent of it.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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But a strong electrical discharge disrupts the internal systems of silicate photovores.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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"If these growths are pure photovores, there's no organic matter in them."
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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The straight science was bad enough, all this business of a world inhabited by photovores and organosilicates, but there was also the matter of the creatures 'appearance.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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"Maybe when it sees that you aren't going to go belly up it'll think you're not photovores and will move off and leave you alone."
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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"The grazers are also photovores," the suit informed him.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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"These growths are photovores, like many we have seen.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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And the whole class of photovores is brand; new. "
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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