| 释义 |
herbivorous, a.|həˈbɪvərəs|
[f. mod.L. herbivor-us herb-eating + -ous.]
Herb-eating; applied to those animals that feed naturally on herbage or the leaves of plants.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Birds, which are..herbivorous, eating grasse or plants. 1794Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 409 If the bones were those of carnivorous animals and herbivorous. 1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. 33 The large herbivorous quadrupeds, such as the ox. 1860tr. Hartwig's Sea & Wond. xiii. 240 The sea-snails are either predaceous or herbivorous. |