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Definition of Graminivorous
1. a. Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.
Definition of Graminivorous
1. Adjective. (entomology) That eats grasses and seeds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Graminivorous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graminivorous
Literary usage of Graminivorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Diseases of the Liver by George Budd (1857)
"The liver-fluke—Its effects on sheep and other graminivorous animals, flukes found
... THE gall-bladder and gall-ducts of most of our graminivorous animals, ..."
2. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1907)
"Both the extreme types are represented in the carnivorous and in graminivorous
birds alike, and it must be concluded that the structure Fia. 8. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... which have been denuded of other grasses, with a thickly crowded coat of
extremely flue, nutritious pasturage for every type of graminivorous animals. ..."
4. The Grammar School Speller: Containing Rules for Spelling, with Numerous by William W. Smith (1871)
"A remarkable appearance. STEAM-ENGINE (steme'-en-jin), n. An engine worked by steam.
graminivorous (gram-in-iv'-o-rus), a. Feeding on grass. ..."
5. The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people by Doubleday, Thomas (1853)
"All that he asserts is, that the graminivorous tribes, if fattened upon the food
... The cow, which is graminivorous solely, becomes sterile when fat. ..."
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