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Plant-eating   /plænt-ˈitɪŋ/   Listen
Plant-eating

adjective
1.
(of animals) feeding on plants.  Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous.





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"Plant-eating" Quotes from Famous Books



... minute quadruped until Dr. Falconer, in 1857, recognised an unmistakable resemblance between its teeth and the two back molars of his new genus Plagiaulax (Figure 306), from the Purbeck strata. This would lead us to the conclusion that Microlestes was marsupial and plant-eating. ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Plant-eating" :   animate being, phytophagic, animal, brute, creature, beast, fauna, herbivorous


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