English Synonym Finder

plant-eating

Definitions

Feeding primarily or exclusively on plants.

Relating to an organism that consumes vegetation as its main source of nutrition.

Examples

The triceratops was a massive plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the earth millions of years ago.

Many gardeners struggle to protect their vegetable patches from plant-eating insects like aphids and caterpillars.

Synonyms

herbivorous vegetarian folivorous graminivorous

Antonyms

carnivorous meat-eating predatory omnivorous