herbivorous
adjUS /(h)ɜːɹˈbɪvəɹəs/
Etymology Adapted borrowing of New Latin herbivorus + -ous, from Latin herba (“grass”) and -vorus, from vorō (“to devour”).
1
Feeding chiefly on plants.
- One example of "an herbivorous fungus" is included among the terrestrial animal experiments2002, Ronald H. Karlson, Dynamics of Coral Communities, page 96:
- Derived terms
- antiherbivorous, herbivorously, herbivorousness, macroherbivorous, megaherbivorous, nonherbivorous
- Related terms
- herbivore, omnivorous