Definition of "herbivorous" []

• Feeding on plants; plant-eating. (adjective)

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• "If the evidence is sufficient to justify the argument that camels are herbivorous _because_ they are ruminants, it must also justify the major premise, _All ruminants are herbivorous_; for else the inference cannot really depend merely upon the fact of ruminating."
• "Here's a spot frame of each type we've observed enough to identify as herbivorous, carnivorous or omnivorous."
• "Kunio Kitamura, head of the clinic of the Japan Family Planning Association which took part in the survey, said the data confirms a wider social belief that younger Japanese men are becoming "herbivorous," a label attached to passive men who do not actively seek women and sex."