granivorous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of granivorous
First recorded in 1640–50; grani- ( def. ) + -vorous ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The bobolink is an insectivorous bird in the North, or until its brood has flown, and a granivorous bird in the South.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
If Shakespeare had made the house sparrow, or the blackbird, or the bunting, or any of the granivorous, hard-billed birds, the foster-parent of the cuckoo, his natural history would have been at fault.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
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
The Professorin added in continuation:— "But yet the granivorous birds are no more virtuous than the insectivorous; each kind lives in accordance with its own law."
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
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
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