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)
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
In fact, there are few of the granivorous animals that may not be brought to be carnivorous.
From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.
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
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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