herbivorousin a sentence
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It is a peaceful herbivore.
herbivore = an animal that feeds only on plants
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Most bear species are omnivorous, but individuals' diets can range from almost exclusively herbivorous to almost exclusively carnivorous depending on what food sources are available locally and seasonally.
herbivorous = feeding only on plants
- Herbivorous animals are an important link in the food chain as they transform the sun's energy that is stored in the plants to food that can be consumable by carnivores and omnivores up the food chain.
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For a peace-loving herbivore, he looked downright murderous.
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herbivore = an animal that feeds only on plants
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We can bite like a carnivore, or chew like an herbivore, depending on the dish.
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herbivore = and animal that only eats plants
- Herbivores flee before them, scavengers follow, wolves lope alongside.† (source)
- Signs have to be put up to explain to the public that the dog is not live food left for the lions (just as we had to put up a sign pointing out that rhinoceros are herbivores and do not eat goats).† (source)
- A small herbivore, if I remember.† (source)
- In the way of herbivores, nothing left here to kill.† (source)
- The vegetation started to die, which caused the herbivores to die, and then the carnivores weren't far behind.† (source)
- Rahel, standing on the car seat, had grown out of the Plymouth window like the loose, flailing horn of a car-shaped herbivore.† (source)
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- "It's an herbivore.† (source)
- Finally, Bellamy had been the one to point out that they were hooves, not paws, which meant that it was probably an herbivore, and therefore something they could conceivably catch and eat.† (source)
- "Let's go hunt some stinking herbivores."† (source)
- It was the cry of a small animal, a tiny nocturnal creature, a herbivore that depended on stealth and speed for survival.† (source)
- Carnivore, omnivore or herbivore?† (source)
- Caribou are the only large herbivores to be found in any numbers in the arctic Barren Lands.† (source)
- Most of the big ones are like Cuvier's devil, herbivorous.† (source)
- That's right, these herbivores, natural plant eaters, are fed meat.† (source)
- Hyenas snack on the excrement of herbivores with clucks of pleasure.† (source)
- Several of these remarkable herbivores live here at Jurassic Park-† (source)
- Most herbivores did not have a strong smell.† (source)
- In nature you'll always find birds following herbivores," Joel had explained.† (source)
- Well, it turns out that compys will eat the feces of large herbivores and redigest it.† (source)
- In each case the birds dine on the insects that would otherwise bother the herbivore.† (source)
- Continuing on our prehistoric safari, we come next to the herbivores of the ornithischian group.† (source)
- People in prehistoric times often hunted the big herbivores that dined on grass.† (source)
- They didn't need herbivores to turn the grass into meat.† (source)
- "Well," Wu said, "we have some very big herbivores on this island.† (source)
- Birds follow and clean up after herbivores.† (source)
- His stunned mind made academic associations: North American herbivores, late Jurassic horizon.† (source)
- She liked the idea of being a gentle water-conserving East African herbivore, but had been less pleased when told the animal she'd picked was extinct.† (source)
- He marvelled at everything, at how to tall trees came tall giraffes, how carnivores were supplied with herbivores and herbivores with grass, how some creatures crowded the day and others the night, how some that needed sharp beaks had sharp beaks and others that needed limber limbs had limber limbs.† (source)
- Not that he was afraid; all the species of duckbilled dinosaurs were herbivorous, and this one acted exactly like a cow.† (source)
- When we looked at beef ranching, we learned how grasses and herbivores formed a partnership over millions of years of evolution.† (source)
- When Joel lets his chickens loose in a pasture, he is using their natural instinct to clean up after herbivores.† (source)
- Ringed with dense vegetation, this island formed a protected sanctuary where herds of herbivorous duckbilled dinosaurs laid their eggs in communal nests, and raised their squeaking young.† (source)
- Now that we've had a look at these fascinating herbivores, we will go on to some dinosaurs that are a little larger.† (source)
- Every step up the food chain, or "trophic pyramid," approximately 90% of energy is lost, which is why there are fewer carnivores than there are herbivores.† (source)
- Ellie knew that one of Grant's dreams was to study infant-rearing behavior in carnivorous dinosaurs, as he had already studied the behavior of herbivores.† (source)
- Studies of predator/prey populations in the game parks of Africa and India suggested that, roughly speaking, there was one predatory carnivore for every four hundred herbivores.† (source)
- Herbivores.† (source)
- He kept no special lookout, rationalizing that night feeders would be bedded down and day feeders would hardly be prowling the tree tops-not big ones, anyway; they would be on the ground, stalking herbivores.† (source)
- Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.† (source)
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