granivorous
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of granivorous
First recorded in 1640–50; grani- ( def. ) + -vorous ( def. )
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)
Seed′-drill, a machine for sowing seed in rows; Seed′-eat′er, a granivorous bird.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 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 Darwin, Francis, Sir
I will leave the granivorous birds to speak of another class, equally hardy, but of habits more like those of the Woodpecker.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various
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 Burroughs, John
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