Adjective : a graminivorous bird.    From Dictionary.com. 

"graminivorous" than any other people I know, and with respect to this their taste appears to me to give the anthropologist a hint of certain traits of the mode of life of the people of the Stone Age which have been completely overlooked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

It had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous, ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference

Horned animals, domesticated or wild, and all such as are not jag-toothed, are all frugivorous and graminivorous, save under great stress of hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Frontal prominences, more truly so termed, are even better developed in peaceful, timid, graminivorous quadrupeds than in the skulls of man or of ape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

Not a single stage-property of poetry did they bring with them but the good old Devil, with his graminivorous attributes, and even he could not stand the climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference

Sheep and goats are graminivorous, but sheep browse assiduously and steadily, whereas goats shift their ground rapidly, and browse only on the tips of the herbage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

Tell her that though man is partially graminivorous, he is principally carnivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)] Reference

This graminivorous animal goes nearly as far to the north as the land in the old world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

The interior, which is bright, and tastefully arranged, is crowded with the graminivorous of both sexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892] Reference

It was a flora unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminivorous bird or herbivorous quadruped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

The digestive apparatus of graminivorous animals is less simple, and their food contains very little nitrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

Dr. Shaw thinks it is the safsaf; but that, being a graminivorous and gregarious bird, is equally objectionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

When exercise is denied to graminivorous and omnivorous animals this is tantamount to a deficient supply of oxygen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

Otherwise they differ in many respects -- some being carnivorous, others graminivorous, others insectivorous, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

During your unconscious state your teeth were examined, and they clearly showed that you were not only graminivorous but carnivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Race] Reference

Therefore, absurd as it may sound, I am prepared to affirm that Pinguicula is not only insectivorous, but graminivorous, and granivorous!.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

The great roads and highways made by graminivorous animals, from those which the hippopotamus cuts through the mammoth canes and reeds of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Side of Animals] Reference

All creation, nearly, preys on some other part of creation -- except that respectable number that are granivorous, and herbivorous, and graminivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Red Wallflower] Reference

It is a remarkable instance of a graminivorous or grass-eating animal being changed for a time into a flesh-eating, or rather into fish-eating animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"] Reference

I even entertained some idea of putting myself on a vegetable diet, vaguely conceiving that, in becoming a graminivorous animal, I should sacrifice to Dora.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield]

"I am surprised," said Ayrault, "that graminivorous animals should be so heavily armed as these, since there can be no great struggle in obtaining their food.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference

Two large graminivorous or browsing quadrupeds, the ur and the schelk, once common in Germany, have been utterly extirpated, the eland and the auerochs nearly so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

All of us know angular business men who think that the earth is flat, or that Mr. Kruger was at the head of a great military despotism, or that men are graminivorous, or that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

“He’s the brother of that great graminivorous creature you had the weird idea of sending to call on me the other day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

A dry country than grass, the Boers supplant the latter by imitating the process by which graminivorous antelopes have so abundantly disseminated the seed of grasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference

Mososaurus of Conybeare), and the colossal, probably graminivorous Iguandon.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

In fact, there are few graminivorous animals that may not be brought to be carnivorous. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

It was but natural that Cuvier should desire to classify this creature, and examining it intently, he said: "Divided hoof; graminivorous!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The breath of graminivorous quadrupeds does certainly enrich the roots of grass; a circumstance worthy of the attention of the philosophical farmer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

But is he a graminivorous animal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference

Was the animal carnivorous or graminivorous?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

"He is graminivorous; you are carnivorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Hurry] Reference