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herbivorous

[hur-biv-er-uhs, ur-] / hɜrˈbɪv ər əs, ɜr- /
ADJECTIVE
vegetarian
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As ecologist Doug Tallamy has chronicled, over 90% of herbivorous insects specialize on one or a few native plant lineages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The herbivorous marsupial can also reabsorb water from the colon and produce more concentrated urine to preserve hydration, or allow its body temperature to fluctuate with the environment in a process known as heterothermy.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

In the wild, wolf packs primarily subsist on wild ungulates - hoofed, typically herbivorous, animals such as deer, cows and pigs.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

They had previously been characterized as entirely herbivorous, like gorillas, Goodall observed them hunting, killing and eating small mammals such as bush pigs and colobus monkeys, by any standard a complicated collaborative enterprise.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

That plant carbon goes on to form the body of the herbivorous animals that eat the plants, and of the carnivorous animals that eat those herbivorous animals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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