How to Use herbivorous in a Sentence

herbivorous

adjective

• The Lystrosaurus was herbivorous, about the size of a pig, with small tusks and a kind of beak.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The herbivorous species had long necks and tails and thick leg and were some of the largest dinosaurs to ever exist.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022
• If there aren’t enough herbivorous fish off the Hawaiian coast due to overfishing, there’s nothing to keep the green stuff in check.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• The researchers are confident that the remains are that of a sauropod, a group of herbivorous dinos that had long necks and walked on four legs.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2022
• The dugong is a strictly herbivorous marine mammal – the only of its kind.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2022
• Not so at the Pine Box Rock Shop, perhaps the most aggressively herbivorous bar in the five boroughs.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
• The herbivorous dinosaurs weigh hundreds of tons and migrate in earth-flattening herds; the carnosaurs that prey on them are outsize to match.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 19 June 2020
• The ancient fossil belongs to a stegosaur, an herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates marching down its back, ending in a spiked tail.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022
• The femur bone is over six feet long and is thought to have belonged to a sauropod -- a subgroup of herbivorous, long-necked and four-legged dinosaurs common in the Jurassic era.
  — Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries, CNN, 26 July 2019
• Egan's lab specializes in studying herbivorous insects that feed on live oaks trees across the Gulf Coast.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 17 Sep. 2019
• A few of these fossils represent herbivorous dinosaurs such as the long-necked sauropods.
  — Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
• Its stomach was full of prehistoric leaves at the time of death, meaning the dinosaur had an herbivorous diet.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
• It is consumed by herbivorous fish, which are then eaten by larger fish.
  — Sarah Burchard, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• Overfishing by humans tends to reduce the number of big, herbivorous fish that would otherwise eat the algae and give the reef a chance at rebirth.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• The small, lithe herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous—like Lesothosaurus and Dryosaurus —are either overlooked or cast as fodder for the carnivores of their time.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• The team found a large carnivorous dinosaur with four long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs nearby Canale says, all in the same rock layer.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• This new finding comes just a month after the announcement of another new species found on the Isle of Wight, the iguanodontian, a 26-foot-long herbivorous dinosaur.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021
• Healthy coral reefs depend on herbivorous fish, which munch on the algae and sediment that would otherwise blanket the reefs.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Owen considered the animal might have been an insect-eater, breaking open termite nests like an anteater, but it is now known to have been herbivorous in its habits.
  — Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
• In 2017, the fossil bones of a Shringasaurus, a horned, herbivorous dinosaur, were discovered in red mudstone of the Denwa formation, in Madhya Pradesh.
  — Kalpana Sunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Dec. 2020
• In most communities, herbivorous dinosaurs came in a range of sizes.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 25 Feb. 2021
• When Happy the elephant arrived at the Bronx Zoo in 1977, the herbivorous mammal was placed inside a fenced area separating her from the zoo’s other elephant.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• One was Protoceratops, an herbivorous dinosaur the size of a sheep that lived between 71 and 75 million years ago in present-day Mongolia.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 June 2020
• This dinosaur replaced its teeth at rates similar to herbivorous species that kept up quick turnover, and, the researchers estimate, about 14 times faster than the bone-crushing Tyrannosaurus.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 28 Nov. 2019
• Among the best known of these is Barylambda, an herbivorous beast that lived in western North America between 50 million and 60 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
• Fossils of this herbivorous dinosaur, reassessed by experts this March, indicate that the Jurassic dinosaur had a neck more than 45 feet long—similar to the neck lengths of the largest dinosaurs of all time.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• That’s the conclusion of a new study that investigated the social habits of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur called Mussaurus that lived around 200 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
• In today’s landscapes, top predators such as wolves and lions are well outnumbered by their herbivorous prey.
  — Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2020
• The morphology of their teeth has suggested that these sloths consumed vegetation, similar to the herbivorous nature of their modern cousins.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• While some are carnivorous, typically targeting worms, snails, and other slugs, others are herbivorous, specializing in fungi and the young shoots of wild forbs, sedges, and other plants.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024