What does verbivorous mean?
Verbivorous means Consuming or devouring words..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Consuming or devouring words..
Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book.
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.”
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.
Use verbivorous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Verbivorous means Consuming or devouring words..
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Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book.
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