herbivore

UK/ˈhɜːbɪvɔː(ɹ)/US/ˈ(h)ɜːɹbɪvɔːɹ/

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,695 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: herbivores

A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants. A large herbivore.

Plants are hard to digest, which is why a herbivore has a long gut and eats most of the day. The largest animals that ever lived on land were all herbivores.

Definitions of herbivore

1nounherbivoreAn animal that eats only plants.B2+
“Every large herbivore on the plain was feeding at once.”

herbivore is an animal.

Where it comes from

Latin herbivorus is herba, a plant, plus vorare, to devour.

Proto-Indo-European
*gʰreh₁-
Latin
herbivorus
French
herbivore
English, today
herbivore

From French herbivore, from Latin herbivorus. by surface analysis, herb + -i- + -vore.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

herbivore in the wild

Since it was an herbivore, scientists think that Chialingosaurus probably ate ferns and cycads, which were plentiful during the period when Chialingosaurus was alive.
Chialingosaurus
Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.
Plant defense against herbivory
Plants can sense being touched, and they can respond with strategies to defend against herbivores.
Plant defense against herbivory
The best known genus is Trilophosaurus, a herbivore up to 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) long.
Trilophosauridae
Plants, on the other hand, protect their resources for use in growth and reproduction, by limiting the ability of herbivores to eat them.
Herbivore adaptations to plant defense

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