herbivorous

3 definitions found

herbivorous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Herbivorous \Her*biv"o*rous\, a. (Zool.)
     Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
     [1913 Webster]

herbivorous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  herbivorous
      adj 1: feeding only on plants [ant: carnivorous,
             insectivorous, omnivorous]

herbivorous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "herbivorous":
     cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining,
     eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous,
     grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating,
     insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating,
     meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous,
     omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating,
     postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating,
     vegetarian