Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A herbivorous animal; one of the Herbivora.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Herbivora.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants
Etymologies
- From New Latin herbivorus ("grass-eater"). (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Herbivora, former mammalian group, from neuter pl. of herbivorus, plant-eating; see herbivorous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I feel bad for the horse that has to stand there and watch while its fellow herbivore is dismembered.”
“Because calling an animal a herbivore is the way that they were made, a natural instinct to eat plants not animals.”
“This trend has led to a new term: locavore, complementing the better known terms herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.”
“Roshinante, the 'herbivore' whom the Reuters story centers on, rejects the money-driven careers and attention-seeking purchases endemic during economic bubbles, especially during the 1980s in Japan, and his different perspective as a consumer intrigues marketing experts.”
“Japan's "herbivore" men shun corporate life, sex - Yahoo!”
“Hyderabad: You might have come across words such as herbivore and carnivore.”
“Then a rhino, but rhinos are herbivores and didn't see how I could keep a herbivore alive for”
“The image of testosterone-crazed rabbits, gore dripping from furry herbivore mouths, made me decide that would never happen.”
“Zoe, the littlest Shannon, meets a gentle, herbivore Brachiosaurus as it feeds on the settlement's bountiful greenery.”
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“About as decent as can be expected when feeding rubber lizards to a caveman while saying “Trog is an herbivore,” that is.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘herbivore’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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herb
how herb is used
herb-bane, herb-bed, herb beer, herb cancer, herb carpenter, herb-doctor, herb-doctress, herb-eater, herb-eating, herb-flower, herb fluellin, herb frankincense and 90 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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Words that should be heard in songs m...
Inspired by PossibleUnderscore's list of words overused in modern pop music.
giant squid, bamboo, colonic, herbivore, raptor, dodecahedron, largesse, sinuses, dim sum, carburetor, transubstantiation, wife and 54 more...
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eaters (and eating)
carnivore, detritivore, saprophage, omnivore, herbivore, nectarivore, frugivore, oophagy, durophagy, feeding frenzy, trophallaxis, ruminate and 33 more...
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Latin Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
inane, ambivalent, incriminate, interrupt, amicable, meticulous, animosity, curriculum, electoral, transect, condolences, bugle and 132 more...
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-vorous, -vore
feeding on
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_mark's keywords ™
words that describe me or that i am focusing on.
( personal list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/personas--2<...satirical, dark, enigmatic, androgyny, appreciative, opinionated, inquisitive, sensitive, nonchalant, acerbic, scientific, circumspective and 229 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Animal Study
Words that have to do with animals that live in the North East.
habitat, adapt, carnivore, herbivore, nocturnal, predator, prey, mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird, warm blooded and 9 more...
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10th Grade Unit 14 (vor/phag)
sarcophagus, esophagus, dysphagia, voracious, omnivore, herbivore, devour, carnivore
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