The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plant-eating
Plant-eating \Plant"-eat`ing\, a. Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
WordNet
plant-eating
adj. (of animals) feeding on plants [syn: plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous]
Usage examples of "plant-eating".
Though he found sketchy evidence of a diplodocoid sauropod and another much larger sauropod, he was able to identify definitively just one species of plant-eating dinosaur, Aegyptosaurus, not an especially large sauropod and unlikely to have been the sole food source for three species of giant meat eaters (and very possibly more, given additional fragmentary evidence described by Stromer).