English Synonym Finder

herbivorous

Definitions

Feeding on plants.

Relating to or characteristic of an animal that eats only vegetation.

Examples

The gentle giraffe is a herbivorous animal that spends most of its day eating leaves from tall trees.

Many scientists believe that the massive sauropods were strictly herbivorous, grazing on vast fields of prehistoric ferns.

Synonyms

plant-eating vegetarian graminivorous folivorous herbivore

Antonyms

carnivorous meat-eating predatory omnivorous flesh-eating