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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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
He lives chiefly on seeds, though, like other granivorous birds, he feeds his young with grubs and small insects.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 by Various
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
The rhaad, or safsaf, is a granivorous and gregarious bird, which wanteth the hinder toe.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson
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
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