Word familyadjectiveherbaceousherbagedherbalherbedherbicidalherbivorousherblessherboseherbynounherbageherbalismherbalistherbarherbarianherbariumherbaryherbicideherbistherbivoraherbivoreherbivoryherbletherboristherborizationherbal medicineherbverbherborize
herbivore• On the other hand, there is good evidence that Hyperodapedon was a herbivore.• It is known that attacks on plants by herbivoresreduce the quality of the tissues for subsequentfeeding.• By the beginning of the UpperTriassic, rhynchosaurs were still the dominantherbivores.• In herbivores particularly, but also in most animals and babies, defecation takes place more than once per day.• The basic food of herbivores is plants, so even the largest carnivorous animals are indirectly dependent on plants.• Thus population numbers of small herbivores, in circumstances of limited food production, cycle over periods of three to four years.• If the ground is covered with snow, how does this affect the herbivores?• Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumbercarnivores.
Originherbivore
(1800-1900)Latinherbivorus“plant-eating”, from herba ( → HERB) + -vorus, from vorare“to eat”