Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of animals, especially mammals, which feed on herbage.
- A division of Marsupialia; the herbivorous marsupials, as the kangaroos. Also called
Poëphaga .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation.
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Examples
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Preying continually upon the herbivora were the meat-eaters, large and small -- wolves, hyaenadons, panthers, lions, tigers, and bear as well as several large and ferocious species of reptilian life.
Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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The bones of the herbivora were the most numerous, and all those on the outside of the grotto which had contained marrow were invariably split open, as if for its extraction, many of them being also burnt.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Large animals cannot be so abundant as small ones; the carnivora must be less numerous than the herbivora; eagles and lions can never be so plentiful as pigeons and antelopes; the wild asses of the Tartarian deserts cannot equal in numbers the horses of the more luxuriant prairies and pampas of
On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type 2004
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In the salt plants on these plains, nature has amply provided for this taste of these large herbivora for salt.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The carnivora prey on the herbivora and upon each other; and the herbivora crush each other by methods that are as effective as the method of direct attack.
Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen
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In the herbivora there is also a second acid juice.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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He prowls through the woods at night in search of the herbivora which constitute his prey, but generally vanishes at the appearance of Aurora.
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Along with the bones were discovered the teeth of mammals, both carnivora and herbivora; also certain small perforated corals, such as were used by many ancient peoples as beads, and similar to those gathered in the deposits of Abbeville.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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It might be mentioned, parenthetically, that among animals, the herbivora are as strong physically as any species of carnivora.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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Many of the bones of the extinct herbivora were streaked, as if the flesh had been scraped off them by a flint instrument, and others were split open, as if for the purpose of extracting the marrow.
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