plant-eating

Speech parts

1. plant-eating - Adjective

2. plant-eating - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

phytophagous phytophagic phytophilous herbivore cannibal eating dining carnivorous vegetarian herbivorous insectivorous commensal grazer anthophagous carpophagous
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Antonyms

dietetic carnivore eater cannibal hunting hungry
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Examples

“Birds are essential in helping to keep plant-eating insect populations under control,” Brittingham said. Source: Internet

A team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of large, duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur from Alaska. Source: Internet

In 2005, he discovered a giant plant-eating dinosaur in southern Patagonia. Source: Internet

"The fact that this plant-eating dinosaur lived in a large, protective herd may have allowed it to survive longer than it normally would have with such a devastating disease," Evans noted. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

plant-based spread plant-cane plant-derived chemist plant-expressible plant-feeding plant-house