Definition of "herbivora" [‖Her•biv•o•ra]

• An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation. (noun-plural)

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• "Preying continually upon the herbivora were the meat-eaters, large and small -- wolves, hyaenadons, panthers, lions, tigers, and bear as well as several large and ferocious species of reptilian life."
• "The bones of the herbivora were the most numerous, and all those on the outside of the grotto which had contained marrow were invariably split open, as if for its extraction, many of them being also burnt."
• "Large animals cannot be so abundant as small ones; the carnivora must be less numerous than the herbivora; eagles and lions can never be so plentiful as pigeons and antelopes; the wild asses of the Tartarian deserts cannot equal in numbers the horses of the more luxuriant prairies and pampas of"