granivorous
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of granivorous
First recorded in 1640–50; grani- ( def. ) + -vorous ( def. )
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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 Susan Warner
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 S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
This bag is very conspicuous in the granivorous tribes immediately after eating.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 by Various
Therefore, absurd as it may sound, I am prepared to affirm that Pinguicula is not only insectivorous, but graminivorous, and granivorous!
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Thirty-five to forty species of granivorous birds, among which we occasionally find in winter that rare Arctic bird, the Evening Grosbeak.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
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