graminivorous
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of graminivorous
1730–40; < Latin grāmin- (stem of grāmen ) grass + -i- + -vorous
Example Sentences
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These carnivorous Animals, who naturally reject all vegetable Food, are the only primary Harbingers or Breeders of it; though they are capable of transmitting it by a Bite to graminivorous and granivorous ones.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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.
During your unconscious state your teeth were examined, and they clearly showed that you were not only graminivorous but carnivorous.
From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
When exercise is denied to graminivorous and omnivorous animals this is tantamount to a deficient supply of oxygen.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The digestive apparatus of graminivorous animals is less simple, and their food contains very little nitrogen.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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