graminivorous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of graminivorous
1730–40; < Latin grāmin- (stem of grāmen ) grass + -i- + -vorous
Example Sentences
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All creation, nearly, preys on some other part of creation—except that respectable number that are granivorous, and herbivorous, and graminivorous.'
From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan
It was a flora unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminivorous bird or herbivorous quadruped.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
Two large graminivorous or browsing quadrupeds, the ur and the schelk, once common in Germany, are utterly extinct, the eland and the auerochs nearly so.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
It had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous, ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.
From Ten Girls from Dickens by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson
It is the graminivorous order that meekly and peacefully crop the pastures that are well fed and in good condition—'which things are an allegory.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
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