herbivore
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Students must do a training stint in each of four main categories — carnivore, herbivore, bird and primate — so they may wind up working with animals they find unpleasant.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025
Meanwhile, the Stegosaurus is seen an iconic herbivore, whose armored plates and spiked tail helped it to defend itself against predators and adapt to a challenging environment.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
The newest — described on Thursday by a team of researchers in the journal PeerJ — is Lokiceratops rangiformis, a five-ton herbivore with spectacular, curving brow horns and huge, bladed spikes on its meter-long frill.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Deprived of a primary herbivore, the reefs succumbed to algal overgrowth and never fully recovered.
From Science Magazine • May 28, 2024
We can bite like a car-nivore, or chew like an herbivore, depending on the dish.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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