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n. - Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants.

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  • I feel bad for the horse that has to stand there and watch while its fellow herbivore is dismembered.
  • Because calling an animal a herbivore is the way that they were made, a natural instinct to eat plants not animals.
  • This trend has led to a new term: locavore, complementing the better known terms herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.
  • Hyderabad: You might have come across words such as herbivore and carnivore.
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