herbivorous
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin herbivorus, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“I eat”).
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]herbivorous (comparative more herbivorous, superlative most herbivorous)
- Feeding chiefly on plants.
- 2002, Ronald H. Karlson, Dynamics of Coral Communities[1], page 96:
- One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments
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[edit]Translations
[edit]feeding only on plants
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