Sample Sentences for
herbivorous
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    Not that he was afraid; all the species of duckbilled dinosaurs were herbivorous, and this one acted exactly like a cow.  (source)
    herbivorous = plant-eating
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    For a peace-loving herbivore, he looked downright murderous.  (source)
    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.  (source)
    herbivore = plant-eating animal
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    Hyenas snack on the excrement of herbivores with clucks of pleasure.  (source)
    herbivores = plant-eating animals
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    "It doesn't eat meat," I said. "It's an herbivore. It's like a big cow."  (source)
    herbivore = an animal that feeds only on plants
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    Most of the big ones are like Cuvier's devil, herbivorous.†  (source)
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    In the way of herbivores, nothing left here to kill.†  (source)
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    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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    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)
    herbivorous = plant-eating
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    The vegetation started to die, which caused the herbivores to die, and then the carnivores weren't far behind.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wide-open, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.†  (source)
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    Caribou are the only large herbivores to be found in any numbers in the arctic Barren Lands.†  (source)
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