What is "herbivorous"

Usage examples of "herbivorous".

She looked thoughtfully at the herbivorous Afanc, her mandibles twitching.

From what has been said, it will readily be seen that whether an animal be carnivorous or herbivorous, it begins to starve as soon as its vital food-stuffs consist only of amyloids, or fats, or both.

Some cynodonts, such as traversodonts and tritylodonts, evolved back to become herbivorous and were widely dispersed.

The tender shoots are protected from being eaten by herbivorous animals in the same way as are the thistles and the holly, by the angles of the leaves having grown together so as to constitute prickles.

For three days the party marched due south through forests and meadow-land and great park-like areas where countless herbivorous animals grazed--deer and antelope and bos and the little ecca, the smallest species of Caspakian horse, about the size of a rabbit.

The intensive development of hadrosaurs, replacing the then extinct iguanodonts, the ankylosaurs replacing stegosaurs, and a widespread expansion of horned dinosaurs are just a few examples of the flourishing fauna of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.

In contrast, the herbivorous thecodonts such as actosaurs foraged mainly on the ground.

The first period followed the separation of dinosaurs from their archosaur ancestors, which took place in the Late Triassic, when the earliest herrerasaurids and prosauropods dominated various other herbivorous and carnivorous vertebrates.

The only sensible quality of the Speedwell is the powerful astringency of its leaves, and this property serves to protect it from herbivorous foes.

The saurischian dinosaurs contain both carnivorous and herbivorous forms.

These studies have led him to examine the origin of fossil deposits, the possible paleoecological interactions between different dinosaurs and between various herbivorous dinosaurs and plants, and the biogeographic patterns of dinosaur distributions in western North America.

It is reasonable to speculate that these skull ornaments of the herbivorous ceratopsians functioned as protective devices against the attacks of carnivorous predators or in aggressive confrontations between individual ceratopsians themselves.

This tooth structure provides a clear proof that all members of the Ornithischia were herbivorous.

Mada could see the dust kicked up by the herds of herbivorous aram from low orbit.

Open grasslands still lay millions of years in the future, along with the fleet, long-legged, graceful herbivorous forms that would adapt to their open lush spaces, and the cleverer, faster carnivores that would arise to prey on them.