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herbivores

herbivores is the plural of herbivore.

Meaning of herbivore

Noun

herbivore (plural herbivores)

  1. An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.
    • It is unlikely that any member of the hominin clade was either an obligate herbivore or an obligate carnivore2011, Bernard Wood, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

Questions about herbivores

What is herbivores the plural of?
Herbivores is the plural of herbivore.

Words near herbivores in the dictionary

  1. herbivora
  2. herbivoral
  3. herbivore
  4. herbivore man
  5. herbivore men
  6. herbivores
  7. herbivority
  8. herbivorization
  9. herbivorized
  10. herbivorous
  11. herbivorously

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