verbivorous
verbivorous adjective: consuming or devouring words.
Adjective
verbivorous (comparative more verbivorous, superlative most verbivorous)
- Consuming or devouring words.
- Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book.1969, Elementary English, volume 46, page 464
- In being verbivorous, humans are unique among the earth's creatures. We have a different kind of life than nonverbal animals, a kind of life that we can call generically “spiritual.”1997, Robert Campbell Roberts, Mark R. Talbot, Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Psychology, page 81
Examples of verbivorous in a sentence
- Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal.2000, Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay:
- The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.2012, Richard Lederer, Amazing Words:
Forms of verbivorous
| comparative | more verbivorous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most verbivorous |
Questions about verbivorous
- What does verbivorous mean?
- Verbivorous means consuming or devouring words.
- How do you use verbivorous in a sentence?
- Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal.
- What part of speech is verbivorous?
- Verbivorous is an adjective.
Words near verbivorous in the dictionary
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