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Oxpeckers offer great grooming services in return for a nutritious diet of fleas and dead skin from herbivores.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
The team believes that the sauropods ate the charcoal to detoxify stomach contents, since ferns can be toxic to herbivores.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024
Known as mega herbivores that mow the parks and create inroads for other herbivores, rhinos are also good for establishing forests by ingesting seeds and spreading them across the parks in their dung.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2024
As herbivores, the animals’ diet of seagrasses and algae gives their fat a greenish color.
—Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
New Latin Herbivora, group of mammals, from neuter plural of herbivorus
First Known Use
1854, in the meaning defined above
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“Herbivore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herbivore. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
herbivore
noun
her·bi·vore
ˈ(h)ər-bə-ˌvō(ə)r
-ˌvȯ(ə)r
: a plant-eating animal
Medical Definition
herbivore
noun
her·bi·vore
ˈ(h)ər-bə-ˌvō(ə)r
-ˌvȯ(ə)r
: a plant-eating animal
especially
: ungulate
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