herbivorous

Etymology

From New Latin herbivorus, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“I eat”).

adj

  1. Feeding chiefly on plants.
    One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments 2002, Ronald H. Karlson, Dynamics of Coral Communities, page 96

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