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Herbivore   /hˈərbɪvˌɔr/  /ˈərbɪvˌɔr/   Listen
Herbivore

noun
1.
Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants.  "The sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores"





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"Herbivore" Quotes from Famous Books



... and hogs gradually issuing, and the Creodonta, the patriarchal carnivores, which will give birth to our lions and tigers, wolves and foxes, and their various cousins. As yet even the two general types of herbivore and carnivore are so imperfectly separated that it is not always possible to distinguish between them. Nearly all of them have the five-toed foot of the reptile ancestor; and the flat nails on their toes are the common material ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe


Words linked to "Herbivore" :   brute, creature, animate being, beast, fauna, animal


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