HERBIVORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does herbivore mean? 

• HERBIVORE (noun)
  The noun HERBIVORE has 1 sense:

1. any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants

  Familiarity information: HERBIVORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERBIVORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Context example:

the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores

Hypernyms ("herbivore" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

It could also allow plants to survive the loss of organs through damage or being eaten by a herbivore.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

The acacia trees produce specialized structures to shelter and feed the ant colony, and the ants, in turn, defend the tree against herbivores.

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

The animal is a crepuscular mammalian herbivore that is tailless with short legs and a large head.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

A healthy reef provides home to a diverse group of marine animals, including herbivores that in turn help control algal growth.

(Microbes reflect the health of coral reefs, National Science Foundation)

Forest scientists and resource managers should therefore keep in mind the ecosystem role of small herbivores like snowshoe hares.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Members of this family are strict herbivores and can be classified as either browsers or grazers depending on how they feed.

(Equidae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Not every species of fruiting tree is an attractive meal to all herbivores.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Large, warm-blooded dinosaurian herbivores weren't able to exist close to the equator—there was not enough dependable plant food.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

Its teeth, eye sockets, braincase, and inner ear revealed that Vintana was likely a large-eyed herbivore that was agile, with keen senses of hearing and smell.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)

The Dunkin Hartley guinea pig is a crepuscular mammalian herbivore that is tailless with short legs and a large head.

(Dunkin Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)