Verbivorous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Verbivorous is an adjective meaning Consuming or devouring words.
Meaning
Consuming or devouring words.
Example Sentences
Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book.
Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal.
The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both.
In being verbivorous, humans are unique among the earth's creatures. We have a different kind of life than nonverbal animals, a kind of life that we can call generically “spiritual.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include omnivorous, comburivorous, voracious, vorant, ravening, wordful.
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