Graminivorous

Quick meaning: Graminivorous is an adjective meaning (entomology) That eats grasses and seeds.

Meaning

(entomology) That eats grasses and seeds.

Example Sentences

If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.

"Bitzer," said Thomas Gradgrind. "Your definition of a horse." / "Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth; namely, twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth." Thus (and much more) Bitzer.

We passed a large jaguar, glaring fiercely at a calf ten feet from him; […] Had we powder to waste, we would certainly have rid the graminivorous from many of their carnivorous neighbours, but we were now entering a tract of country celebrated for the depredations of the Texians and Buggles free bands, and every charge of powder thrown away was a chance the less, in case of a fight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gramenivorous, graminicolous, granivorous, graminoid, graminifolious, gramineal.

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