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herbivore (n.)

"plant-eating animal," 1851, from Modern Latin Herbivora (1830) or French herbivore (1748), from neuter plural of Latin herbivorus, from herba "a plant" (see herb) + vorare "devour, swallow" (from PIE root *gwora- "food, devouring").

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Definitions of herbivore from WordNet

herbivore (n.)
any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants;
horses are herbivores
the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores
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