graminivorous

[ gram-uh-niv-er-uhs ]

adjective

1. feeding or subsisting on grass:

   a graminivorous bird.

graminivorous

/ ˌɡræmɪˈnɪvərəs /

adjective

1. (of animals) feeding on grass

Word History and Origins

Origin of graminivorous¹

1730–40; < Latin grāmin- (stem of grāmen ) grass + -i- + -vorous

Word History and Origins

Origin of graminivorous¹

C18: from Latin grāmen grass + -vorous

Example Sentences

Wild animals and tame, carnivorous and graminivorous, insects, birds, fishes and man are adapted to each other.”

From Project Gutenberg

If a carnivorous animal has a tail very much like that of one of the graminivorous sort, the carver says nothing about it, but makes the same endless ring of tails serve both; or they may belong to the same order but different families—as, for instance, the camel and the cow, which are presented by these Noah's Ark people with tails cut from the same endless ring.

From Project Gutenberg

Your picture's most pathetic; But I've seen your pachydermatous Poor Innocent when furious, And for a gentle graminivorous creature, it is curious How he'll run amuck like a Malay, and crunch canoes and foes up, With those same tusks, which might have made a Mammoth turn his toes up.

From Project Gutenberg

Those tusks may look terrific, But the monster's graminivorous, and pleasant, and pacific.

From Project Gutenberg

Of course, we cannot keep a house pet, altered by centuries of evolution, just as Nature kept him, on raw flesh—for one thing, because he is not living the same sort of life; but the conditions are not so different as to have turned a flesh-eating animal into a graminivorous one.

From Project Gutenberg