plant-eating meaning

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plant-eating (adjective): (of animals) feeding on plants.

Definition of plant-eating

(of animals) feeding on plants
Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous
Similar: herbivorous

plant-eating in a sentence

The triceratops was a three-horned plant-eating dinosaur.
If a wolf consumes a plant-eating rodent, the wolf is classed as a secondary consumer.

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