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Channeling your favorite herbivore from Jurassic Park is optional.—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 23 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 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 See All Example Sentences for herbivore
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Etymology
New Latin Herbivora, group of mammals, from neuter plural of herbivorus
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