Meaning & use
herbivorous
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Feeding chiefly or exclusively on plants rather than meat.
See it in a sentence
The triceratops was a herbivorous dinosaur that used its beak to strip leaves from low branches.
Cows and rabbits are both herbivorous mammals.
A note on using this word
The word combines the Latin "herba" (plant) with "vorare" (to devour), the same root found in "carnivorous" and "omnivorous."
Words with a similar meaning
plant-eatingvegetarian
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Words with an opposite meaning
carnivorousomnivorous
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