herbivore

(hûr'bə-vôr', -vōr', ûr'-)
n.
An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.

[From New Latin Herbivora, former mammalian group, from neuter pl. of herbivorus, plant-eating. See herbivorous.]

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Any animal which eats only plant material. See food chain, trophic level.

(hur-buh-vawr, ur-buh-vawr)

A living thing that eats only plants. Cattle, sheep, and horses are herbivores.

One of the Herbivora; animals that subsist in their natural state entirely by eating plants and plant products. In confined management systems foods of animal origin may be included in their diets, e.g. meat meal, fish meal.

• non-ruminant h. — monogastric animals, such as horses and rabbits, able to digest roughages and other fibrous feeds in their hindgut.

For a list of words related to herbivore, see:

• Environment, Ecology, and Animal Behavior - herbivore: plant-eating organism, consumer of producers

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - planteæder

Nederlands (Dutch)
herbivoor, planteneter

Français (French)
n. - herbivore

Deutsch (German)
n. - Herbivore, Pflanzenfresser

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φυτοφάγο ζώο

Italiano (Italian)
erbivoro

Português (Portuguese)
n. - herbívoro (m) (Zool.)

Русский (Russian)
травоядный

Español (Spanish)
n. - herbívoro

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - herbivor, växtätare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
草食动物

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 草食動物

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 초식동물, 초식짐승

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 草食動物

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) العاشب حيوان مقتات بالاعشاب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אוכל עשב, אוכל צמחים‬

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