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Grazer

Grazer \Graz"er\, n. One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.

The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want.
--J. Philips.

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grazer

n. 1 An animal that grazes. 2 A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.

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Grazer

Grazer may refer to:

  • Grazing, a type of feeding, in which an animal feeds on plants (such as grasses), and on other multicellular autotrophs (such as algae)
Grazer (surname)

Grazer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Brian Grazer, American Oscar-winning film and television producer
  • Gavin Grazer, American film actor and director
  • Gigi Levangie Grazer, American novelist and screenwriter

Usage examples of "grazer".

The benthic grazers helped feed her, and in the process kept the walls clean.

Before the Ice Age the animals of the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere had been a rich mixture of fleet grazers like deer and horses, giant herbivores like rhinos, and fast-running carnivores like lions and wolves.

To confirm her hideous surmise, the double doors of one of the barns now opened and its inhabitants, comprised of the six-legged grazers and some other smaller and different types, were being herded to the abattoir by a curious mechanical which had long extendable ‘arms' and which spat electrical sparks at laggard beasts.

Alongside them moved a small family of dinomyids: bulky, bearlike grazers.

She could distinguish the bleached white skeletons of the giant grazers that had been bowled out of the way of this minor leviathan until it had come to a grinding halt.

Small, limbless nocturnal grazers on Jast's surprisingly luxuriant and varied desert flora, they ate and defecated pretty much where they lay.

The creatures ran toward the bloody grazer carcass and the kneeling Odysseus at more than sixty miles per hour, then skidded to a stop in a small cloud of dust.

Evidently the activity at the site had driven away the larger grazers they normally preyed on.

The creatures which had fled the fire were now browsing by the lake which had saved them and, though none appeared to be more than a variety of large ruminants, grazers, and several equally big predators, none acted with any sentience.

The probe pictures should have shown us some sort of ruminants or grazers on these grasslands.

They had come out low above the rolling highland plateau where the Ancients had turned loose their grazers and ruminators, unable to transport more than breeding stock to the north.

Part of the shagginess of the grazers might be due to shedding winter fur.

The children had to move as the grazers did, with all four feet on the ground, but for all their energy and adventurousness (skipping up to Mary and shying away, trying to clamber up tree trunks, floundering in the shallow water, and so on), they seemed clumsy, as if they were in the wrong element.