Herbivorous
[hɜː'bɪvərəs] or ['hɝbɪvərəs]
Definition
(a.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
Editor: Will
Examples
- On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much more probably it waded half submerged in pursuit of the herbivorous river saurians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They seem to take the place of the herbivorous mammalia. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Will