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graminivorous

[ gram-uh-niv-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. feeding or subsisting on grass:

    a graminivorous bird.



graminivorous

/ ˌɡ°ù泾ɪˈ²Ôɪ±¹É™°ùÉ™²õ /

adjective

  1. (of animals) feeding on grass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of graminivorous1

1730–40; < Latin ²µ°ùÄå³¾¾±²Ô- (stem of ²µ°ùÄå³¾±ð²Ô ) grass + -i- + -vorous
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of graminivorous1

C18: from Latin ²µ°ùÄå³¾±ð²Ô grass + -vorous
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Wild animals and tame, carnivorous and graminivorous, insects, birds, fishes and man are adapted to each other.â€

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If a carnivorous animal has a tail very much like that of one of the graminivorous sort, the carver says nothing about it, but makes the same endless ring of tails serve both; or they may belong to the same order but different families—as, for instance, the camel and the cow, which are presented by these Noah's Ark people with tails cut from the same endless ring.

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Your picture's most pathetic; But I've seen your pachydermatous Poor Innocent when furious, And for a gentle graminivorous creature, it is curious How he'll run amuck like a Malay, and crunch canoes and foes up, With those same tusks, which might have made a Mammoth turn his toes up.

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Those tusks may look terrific, But the monster's graminivorous, and pleasant, and pacific.

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Of course, we cannot keep a house pet, altered by centuries of evolution, just as Nature kept him, on raw flesh—for one thing, because he is not living the same sort of life; but the conditions are not so different as to have turned a flesh-eating animal into a graminivorous one.

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