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adj. - Feeding on any of a large family of monocotyledonous mostly herbaceous plants with jointed stems, slender sheathing leaves, and flowers borne in spikelets of bracts

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  • Not a wimpy, grass-eating, manure-spreading herbivore.
  • Why would the grass-eating animals go from place to place during the summer?
  • It may be a mussel, a plant, a fish, an insect or even a meek, grass-eating rabbit.
  • The feeding grounds of the grass-eating animals determined the haunts of the beasts of prey.
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