Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeding on plants; plant-eating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eating herbs; feeding on vegetables: distinguished from carnivorous, insectivorous, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
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- adjective
Feeding only onplants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeding only on plants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the evidence is sufficient to justify the argument that camels are herbivorous _because_ they are ruminants, it must also justify the major premise, _All ruminants are herbivorous_; for else the inference cannot really depend merely upon the fact of ruminating.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Here's a spot frame of each type we've observed enough to identify as herbivorous, carnivorous or omnivorous.
Cattle Town 2010
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Here's a spot frame of each type we've observed enough to identify as herbivorous, carnivorous or omnivorous.
Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978
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Kunio Kitamura, head of the clinic of the Japan Family Planning Association which took part in the survey, said the data confirms a wider social belief that younger Japanese men are becoming "herbivorous," a label attached to passive men who do not actively seek women and sex.
Japanese Government Concerned As Sex Drive Vanishes From Nation Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Terms often heard nowadays include soshoku-kei danshi ("herbivorous" boys) or ojoman (girlie men).
First I bring you radio, now TV the rev. paperboy 2009
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Terms often heard nowadays include soshoku-kei danshi ("herbivorous" boys) or ojoman (girlie men).
Archive 2009-01-01 Edstock 2009
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In those areas usually submerged during high tide, there is a more diverse array of algae and small animals, such as herbivorous snails, crabs, sea stars, and small fishes.
Marine biomes 2007
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• Rhizobiales have a wide distribution and are prevalent within, and almost entirely confined to, "herbivorous" ant hosts whose tissues have low ratios of heavy to light nitrogen isotopes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Stable isotope analyses have shown that ants can range from 'herbivorous' species, feeding primarily on exudates produced by plants and sap-feeding insects, to 'carnivorous' species feeding primarily on insect prey or scavenged arthropods.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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• Rhizobiales have a wide distribution and are prevalent within, and almost entirely confined to, "herbivorous" ant hosts whose tissues have low ratios of heavy to light nitrogen isotopes.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
brtom commented on the word herbivorous
"... her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 28, 2007