graminivorous

[gram-uh-niv-er-uh s]

adjective

feeding or subsisting on grass: a graminivorous bird.

Nearby words

Origin of graminivorous

1730–40; < Latin grāmin- (stem of grāmen) grass + -i- + -vorous

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Examples from the Web for graminivorous

When exercise is denied to graminivorous and omnivorous animals this is tantamount to a deficient supply of oxygen.
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The interior, which is bright, and tastefully arranged, is crowded with the graminivorous of both sexes.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892|Various
Again, horned quadrupeds are all herbivorous (or graminivorous), and have hoofs to their feet.
Extinct Monsters|H. N. Hutchinson
Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2|Gilbert White

The digestive apparatus of graminivorous animals is less simple, and their food contains very little nitrogen.
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British Dictionary definitions for graminivorous

graminivorous

adjective

(of animals) feeding on grass

Word Origin for graminivorous

C18: from Latin grāmen grass + -vorous

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Word Origin and History for graminivorous

graminivorous

adj.

"feeding on grass," 1739, from gramini-, comb. form of Latin gramen (genitive graminis) "grass, fodder," which perhaps ultimately is cognate with English grass, + -vorous.