Etymology
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From French herbivore. Equivalent to herb (herbage) + -vore.
Pronunciation
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herbivore (plural herbivores)
- An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.
2011, Bernard Wood, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution[1]:It is unlikely that any member of the hominin clade was either an obligate herbivore or an obligate carnivore
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plant-eating organism
- Afrikaans: herbivoor (af), planteter
- Arabic: حَيَوَان عَاشِب m (ḥayawān ʕāšib)
- Armenian: խոտակեր (hy) (xotaker)
- Basque: belarjale
- Breton: geotdebrer (br) m
- Bulgarian: тревопасно животно n (trevopasno životno)
- Catalan: herbívor m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 食草動物/食草动物 (zh) (shícǎo dòngwù)
- Czech: býložravec (cs) m
- Danish: planteæder (da) c
- Dutch: herbivoor (nl) m, planteneter (nl) m
- Esperanto: herbovorulo
- Finnish: kasvinsyöjä (fi)
- French: herbivore (fr) m
- Galician: herbívoro (gl) m
- Georgian: ბალახიჭამია (balaxič̣amia), ბალახისმჭამელი ცხოველები (balaxismč̣ameli cxovelebi)
- German: Pflanzenfresser (de) m
- Greek: φυτοφάγος (el) m (fytofágos)
- Ancient: βοτόν n (botón)
- Hungarian: növényevő (hu)
- Ido: herbivoro (io)
- Indonesian: herbivor (id)
- Ingrian: kasvonsööjä
- Italian: erbivoro (it) m
- Japanese: 草食動物 (ja) (そうしょくどうぶつ, sōshoku dōbutsu)
- Kannada: ಸಸ್ಯಾಹಾರಿ (kn) (sasyāhāri)
- Khmer: តិណាសី (km) (teh na sei)
- Korean: 초식 동물 (草食動物) (chosik dongmul)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: giyaxwer (ku) n
- Lithuanian: (grass-eater) žolėdis m, (plant-eater) augalėdis m
- Macedonian: тревоја́дец m (trevojádec), тревопа́сно жи́вотно n (trevopásno žívotno)
- Malay: binatang maun, haiwan maun, haiwan herbivor, herbivor (ms)
- Malayalam: സസ്യഭുക്ക് (sasyabhukkŭ)
- Maori: kaiota
- Mongolian: өвсөн тэжээлтэн (övsön težeelten)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: planteeter (no) m
- Nynorsk: planteetar m
- Old English: wyrtǣta m
- Persian: گیاهخوار (fa) (giyâhxvâr)
- Polish: roślinożerca (pl) m
- Portuguese: herbívoro (pt) m
- Romanian: erbivor (ro) n
- Russian: травоя́дное живо́тное n (travojádnoje živótnoje), фитофа́г (ru) m (fitofág)
- Scottish Gaelic: lus-itheadair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏љоје̄д m, би̏љождер m
- Roman: bȉljojēd (sh) m, bȉljožder (sh) m, biljojedac m
- Slovak: bylinožravec m
- Slovene: rastlinojedec (sl) m, rastlinojed m
- Spanish: herbívoro (es) m
- Swahili: mla-mimea ?
- Swedish: växtätare (sv) c
- Tagalog: halmankain, erbiboro
- Thai: สัตว์กินพืช (th) (sàt-gin-pʉ̂ʉt)
- Vietnamese: động vật ăn cỏ, động vật ăn thực vật
- Welsh: llysysor m, llysysydd m
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