grazer

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The hippopotamus-sized grazer is thought to be related to today's sea cows, manatees and their terrestrial relatives, the elephants.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024

Taken together, the evidence indicated that D. xiezhi shared some morphological characteristics with modern giraffes and was likely a grazer, perhaps feeding on a mix of leafy plants and grasses.

From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2022

Africa is home to two of the five surviving rhinoceros species: the larger white rhino, a grass grazer, and the smaller black rhino, which browses on trees and bushes.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021

In our house, since my toddler daughter started eating solids, my husband has given up soda, and I’ve transformed myself from a constant grazer into a scheduled-snack-and-meal person.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2019

Then Mary saw one reach beneath a grazer and milk it with her trunk; and then the wheeled one rolled over to her and raised her trunk delicately to Mary’s mouth.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman