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an animal that only eats plants
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Recent Examples of herbivores
More about Galapagos tortoises Galapagos tortoises are herbivores native to the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador.
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Ayana Archie, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
The researchers suggest this might be because these herbivores favored the expanding green plains that emerged as a large inland sea retreated, making their fossils more likely to be preserved in the dominant sediment types of that time.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
Their ability to incapacitate large herbivores with powerful forelimbs and dagger-like canines may have given them a predatory edge over the bone-crushing canids.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Today, this gives us a fossil record dominated by carnivores, rather than herbivores.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
These tiny tracks were created by dozens of small, two-legged herbivores during the early Jurassic period.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
For example, ants protect certain trees from herbivores while feeding on the tree’s nectar.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
For example, several documentaries and adventure films have reported incidents where wild animals—especially large predators and unpredictable herbivores—turned on their human counterparts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Unearthed by sheer chance at a quarry, researchers, including Nicholls, revealed a series of footprints – or trackways – of herbivores and carnivores, including Megalosaurus.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
Ayana Archie, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
The researchers suggest this might be because these herbivores favored the expanding green plains that emerged as a large inland sea retreated, making their fossils more likely to be preserved in the dominant sediment types of that time.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
Their ability to incapacitate large herbivores with powerful forelimbs and dagger-like canines may have given them a predatory edge over the bone-crushing canids.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Today, this gives us a fossil record dominated by carnivores, rather than herbivores.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
These tiny tracks were created by dozens of small, two-legged herbivores during the early Jurassic period.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
For example, ants protect certain trees from herbivores while feeding on the tree’s nectar.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
For example, several documentaries and adventure films have reported incidents where wild animals—especially large predators and unpredictable herbivores—turned on their human counterparts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Unearthed by sheer chance at a quarry, researchers, including Nicholls, revealed a series of footprints – or trackways – of herbivores and carnivores, including Megalosaurus.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for herbivores
Noun
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Some scientists have even proposed that free radicals can lead to aging in humans and other creatures, though that idea is disputed.—
Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Another research team at MIT used the gills of these creatures, which filter for plankton, to improve commercial water filtration systems.—
Elizabeth Rayne,
Ars Technica,
31 Dec. 2024
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After all, what kind of lifetime trauma would be created — not to mention disgustingness — if, while doing the deed, one of the critters popped up from below and took a bite out of my bare ass?—
Jackie Delamatre,
Curbed,
30 Dec. 2024
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In doing so, these invasive critters also pose a threat to the crabbing and fishing industries, which many coastal communities rely on for income.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Herbivores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herbivores. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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