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Meanings of herbivorous in inglês
Feeding only on plants.
Antonyms
Examples for "carnivorous"
Examples for "carnivorous"
1
Some time after two million years ago, ape-men had become more carnivorous.
2
Ireland has several native species of carnivorous plants, growing in bog habitats.
3
The nutritive process is seen in its simplest form in carnivorous animals.
4
Other carnivorous larvæ-atleast in the series of the Hymenoptera-must share it.
5
We watched as Polyphemus visited his carnivorous flock on the far side.
1
Of English Literature and especially of poetry he was an omnivorous reader.
2
And tucking up this brass omnivorous hoofed mammal, reminder of swine everywhere.
3
Monkeys are omnivorous, never having been persuaded by the arguments of vegetarians.
4
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
5
I was still omnivorous, at least -female mosquitoes don't eat plants.
1
Under ideal weather conditions, reclaimed wetlands can support healthy populations of aerially-insectivorous birds.
2
Bats are mostly insectivorous; a few are fruit-eaters, such as our common flying-fox.
3
We began this series by insectivorous birds, and we had ended with them.
4
I have been working for some time on a special subject, namely insectivorous plants.
5
They include carnivorous, herbivorous, and insectivorous families, and their head-quarters appear to be Australia.
Usage of herbivorous in inglês
1
The only flesh they eat is that of herbivorous animals and birds.
2
The odors of blood, meat, and fat are repugnant to herbivorous animals.
3
Nothing is more remarkable than the result of habits in the herbivorous mammals.
4
The world had far more medium-sized herbivorous mammals than I'd imagined.
5
They were evidently herbivorous and some of them of gigantic size.
6
First I looked up medium-sized herbivorous mammals and their skeletal structures.
7
A herd of something herbivorous had passed by the gorge during the night.
8
Hence result special energies, which do not suit every herbivorous animal.
9
For example, it is due to causation that ruminants are herbivorous.
10
The restorative process is sooner completed in the carnivorous than in the herbivorous tribes.
11
Others apparently resembled in form and habit the herbivorous and carnivorous mammals of to-day.
12
Plants produce a broad variety of defensive metabolites to protect themselves against herbivorous insects.
13
Perhaps Islam is analogous to a carnivorous gene complex, Buddhism to a herbivorous one.
14
The domestic animals have herbivorous teeth formed to cut grass, which is their fodder.
15
Grasses became abundant, furnishing a new food for herbivorous animals.
16
They include carnivorous, herbivorous, and insectivorous families, and their head-quarters appear to be Australia.
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