Herbivore

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Herbivore \Her"bi*vore\, n. [Cf. F. herbivore.] (Zool.)
     One of the Herbivora. --P. H. Gosse.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  herbivore
       n : any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants;
           "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were
           apparently herbivores"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "herbivore":
     Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, amphibian, aquatic, biped,
     board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, canine, cannibal, carnivore,
     connoisseur of food, consumer, cosmopolite, diner, diner-out,
     eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, feline, flesh-eater, fruitarian,
     gastronome, glutton, gnawer, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater,
     graminivore, granivore, high liver, hungry mouth, insectivore,
     invertebrate, lactovegetarian, luncher, mammal, mammalian,
     man-eater, marsupial, marsupialian, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore,
     omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater,
     predacean, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant,
     scavenger, trencherman, ungulate, varmint, vegetarian, vermin,
     vertebrate