herbivore

Etymology

From French herbivore. Equivalent to herb (herbage) + -vore.

noun

  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 carnivore 2011, Bernard Wood, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution

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