herbivorous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   feeding chiefly or entirely on plants

   The herbivorous tortoise grazed on grasses and low shrubs.

Adapted from New Latin herbivorus, formed from Latin herba ("grass, plant") + -vorus ("devouring"), from vorare ("to swallow, devour"), with English -ous. The same -vorous element appears in carnivorous and omnivorous.

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