How To Use Herbivorous In A Sentence
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It has been suggested that herbivorous dinosaurs swallowed large stones that collected in a birdlike gizzard grinding the poorly masticated herbage.
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To accomplish this goal, we quantified the effects of variation in host plant quality and prey abundance on the intensity of interactions between an omnivorous insect and two herbivorous prey.
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For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.
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What led to BSE was the feeding of other animals to a species that is herbivorous, turning them into cannibals.
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The herbivorous ornitho pod dinosaurs may have had a mammal like diaphragm for efficient respiration.
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THUS THE PIG TRIBE, though not a ruminating mammal, as might be inferred from the number of its molar teeth, is yet a link between the herbivorous and the carnivorous tribes, and is consequently what is known as an omnivorous quadruped; or, in other words, capable of converting any kind of aliment into nutriment.
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• Rhizobiales have a wide distribution and are prevalent within, and almost entirely confined to, "herbivorous" ant hosts whose tissues have low ratios of heavy to light nitrogen isotopes.
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Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins.
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For valid reasoning there must be parallel cases, according to substance and attribute, or cause and effect, or proportion: e.g. _As cattle and deer are to herbivorousness, so are camels; As bodies near the earth fall toward it, so does the moon; As 2 is to 3 so is 4 to 6.
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Terms often heard nowadays include soshoku-kei danshi ("herbivorous" boys) or ojoman (girlie men).
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The previously discussed benefits of large size to a mammalian herbivore probably also accrued to large herbivorous dinosaurs.
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Variation in mating system structure is common in lizards, especially the herbivorous iguanids.
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In those areas usually submerged during high tide, there is a more diverse array of algae and small animals, such as herbivorous snails, crabs, sea stars, and small fishes.
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It appears to be herbivorous, but it might be an opportunistic carnivore.
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Thus the extremes of carnivorous adaptation, as in the case of the cats, of omnivorous adaptation, as in the case of the bears, of herbivorous adaptation, as in the case of the horses, or myrmecophagous adaptation, as in the case of the anteaters, are all secondary "(_loc.cit. _, pp. 23-4).
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But when 14-year-old Luke tried to tempt it out of its shell by feeding it lettuce, as common herbivorous tortoises are accustomed to eating, the creature snapped at his hand with such force he was lucky to escape with his fingers intact.
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Here's a spot frame of each type we've observed enough to identify as herbivorous, carnivorous or omnivorous.
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We get everything from herbivorous reptiles to aquatic animals that eat bloodworms.
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The diet of the edentulous forms is unclear, but a recent discovery of gastroliths in an undescribed Chinese ornithomimosaur may indicate a herbivorous/granivorous diet for at least this species.
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In advanced herbivorous cynodonts, like the tritylodonts, the ability to move the lower jaws in a fore-aft direction was exploited for the purpose of cutting up plant material by the cheek dentition.
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Overall, plants with many pods fostered high densities of big-eyed bugs, which adversely affected the densities of aphids and most other herbivorous insects.
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as “the sea cow,” because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
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It appears to be herbivorous, but it might be an opportunistic carnivore.
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Herbivorous species such as parrotfish, for instance, graze on the weedy turf algae that invade reef surfaces, thus preparing those surfaces for larval recruitment.
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The aetosaurs, or Stagonolepididae, were large herbivorous armoured archosaurs, and an important characteristic part of Late Triassic faunas.
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The intestines are also identical with those of herbivorous animals, which present a larger surface for absorption and have ample and cellulated colons.
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A recent article in the journal Nature, for example, reported that aquaculture for herbivorous or omnivorous species such as carp and molluscs can greatly contribute to global fish supplies.
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Herbivorous attack was estimated by the number of attacked leaves and percentage of leaf area damaged, while gall-forming insect attacks were estimated from the number of leaves with galls and number of galls per individual plant.
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Like herbivorous cattle fed meat, carnivorous fish are now largely vegetarians.
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On the other hand, although they are also primarily decomposers associated with soils, certain oribatid mites are herbivorous on living plants.
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Genetic evidence suggests that the elephant's closest relatives in evolutionary terms are manatees and dugongs, herbivorous sea cows that live full-time in the water.
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Furthermore, it is likely that most herbivorous dinosaurs employed a mutualistic gut microbiota.
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The presence of extremely large upper canines in an herbivorous kangaroo is a unexpected example of evolutionary convergence with Tertiary and even extant ungulates.
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But cats are from the noble lineage Carnivora and, unlike some of its lesser members, such as omnivorous bears or, even more appalling, herbivorous pandas, they exclusively eat meat.
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Other herbivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic included the plated stegosaurs.
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Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons.
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Many of the animals intentionally introduced to new habitats have been herbivorous mammals, including goats, rabbits, pigs, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, monkeys, deer, wallabies, opossums, and squirrels.
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They were strictly herbivorous and had wide semicircular, or rectangular cropping jaws packed with spoon-shaped teeth for taking big mouthfuls of fodder.
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Nothing is more remarkable than the effects of habit in herbivorous mammals.
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Omnivorous, herbivorous, and insectivorous species were selected for study of plant chemical discrimination to facilitate comparisons between diet and chemosensory responses in relation to iguanian phylogeny.
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Wombats are strictly herbivorous grazers; they have a simple stomach and a short, broad cecum.
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Phytoseiid mites and heteropteran bugs are frequently part of the enemy complex of herbivorous arthropods in agroecosystems.
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Although the lamantin is strictly herbivorous, feeding chiefly upon subaqueous plants and littoral herbs, yet upon one of the stone smoking-pipes, Fig. 66, this animal is represented with a fish in its mouth.
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My major interest is the chalicotheres, a group of extinct clawed herbivorous perissodactyls.
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Hypertrophied upper canines which occur in the paratype, have never previously been recorded in kangaroos and represent an example of evolutionary convergence between these herbivorous marsupials and ungulate eutherians.
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Herbivorous reptiles the size of rhinos were hunted through forests of tree ferns and flowering trees by saber-toothed predators.
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In co-evolution terms it means that herbivorous dinosaurs may have grown large as a means of attaining thermal stability.
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Features one would expect to see in herbivorous dinosaurs that provide some evidence of diet include dentition.
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Her virtues lay in no resistant force of character, but in a natural inappetency for evil things, which to her were as unmeaning as joints of flesh to a herbivorous creature.
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They are entirely herbivorous, feeding largely on grass and some browse.
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The skull is an example of convergent evolution with some of the ornithopods and also with the dicynodonts, an herbivorous group of early synapsids.
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By inadvertence he has completely abolished the strange and remarkable trees and shrubs of islands -- such as St. Helena -- where the herbivorous animals introduced by him have made short work of the wonderful native plants isolated for ages, and have completely exterminated them, so that they are "extinct.
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By Early Triassic times, cynodonts had diverged into large predaceous carnivores such as Cynognathus and moderate large omnivorous and herbivorous types such as Trirachodon and Diademodon.
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Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous.
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Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.
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An important factor in the diet of the herbivorous animals, and one absent from the food of the carnivora, is that carbohydrate, the building material of all green-meat - [food], cellulose, and there is some ground for thinking that the caecum is probably a region of special fermentive action upon it.
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Plants can use indirect defence mechanisms to protect themselves against herbivorous insects.
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Herbivorous fishes posses specialized organs, such as extended guts, pharyngeal mills and gizzards, that allow them to exploit various reef plants and algae.
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So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia.
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The digestive tracts of herbivorous fishes may contain protistan and bacterial endosymbionts that aid in the digestion of the plant material.
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
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Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons.
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If the evidence is sufficient to justify the argument that camels are herbivorous _because_ they are ruminants, it must also justify the major premise, _All ruminants are herbivorous_; for else the inference cannot really depend merely upon the fact of ruminating.
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So, I'm still processing the news of the discovery of hard evidence of an enormous lake that existed in the Martian Shalbatana Vallis region some 3.4 billion years ago, when I get word of an exciting new herbivorous Chinese ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis.
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There is no exception, unless man be one, to the rule of herbivorous animals having cellulated colons.
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This may explain why the panda diet is primarily herbivorous even though it is classified as a carnivore," says Wang.
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Fossils of a previously unknown species, which is believed to have belonged to the herbivorous sauropod diplodocus family, were found along the banks of a tributary of the Amazon river in the northern state of Maranhao.
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Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous.
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Their decline accelerated during the Oligocene and coincided with the rise of another group of large herbivorous and cursorial mammals, the artiodactyls.
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In the south, therapsids like sheep-sized herbivorous traversodonts predominated; in the north, archosaurs were more common.
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Herbivorous tephritid flies host an endosymbiotic bacterium until recently classified in the genus Erwinia, a galling plant pathogen capable of synthesizing auxins and cytokinins.
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The aetosaurs, or Stagonolepididae, were large herbivorous armoured archosaurs, and an important characteristic part of Late Triassic faunas.
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A skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger hunting an oreodont, a herbivorous prey, is also on offer.
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The manatee, often called the sea cow , is the only exclusively herbivorous marine mammal.
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In the first section of the tour, herbivorous animals such as deer, zebras and elephants are scattered over a dry, barren landscape.
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as "the sea cow," because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
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New Holland has merely marsupial and some monotrematous, but no placental, mammalia; even its tertiary strata give no placental mammalia, but marsupialia, in analogy with all living genera, herbivorous, and carnivorous.
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These trees provided food to bats, and many herbivorous mammals, insects, butterflies and bees.
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The herbivorous reptiles and tortoises had thrived until the arrival of man - and the rats that stowed away on his ships - because there had been no large predatory, carnivorous mammals for them to contend with.
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By inadvertence he has completely abolished the strange and remarkable trees and shrubs of islands -- such as St. Helena -- where the herbivorous animals introduced by him have made short work of the wonderful native plants isolated for ages, and have completely exterminated them, so that they are "extinct.
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Stable isotope analyses have shown that ants can range from 'herbivorous' species, feeding primarily on exudates produced by plants and sap-feeding insects, to 'carnivorous' species feeding primarily on insect prey or scavenged arthropods.
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For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.
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Taking this as axiom of the syllogism materially treated, we see that herbivorousness, being constantly related to ruminants, is constantly related to camels; mortality to man and, therefore, to Socrates; rusting to the immersion of iron in water generally and, therefore, to this piece of iron.
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In fact, we are told that God originally created animals and human beings to be herbivorous.
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They work by mimicking the action of neurological chemicals, and plants produce them because they defend against herbivorous predators.
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Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.
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In Eurasia and North America, the spread of grasslands forced an evolutionary change in herbivorous mammals, with the forest browsers giving way to the prairie grazers.
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Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E).
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Herbivorous, granivorous and insectivorous birds have a highly specialized, muscular gizzard with an inner lining of hard cuticle.
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Is it the rhinoceros with its aphrodisiac horn and herbivorous browsing?
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Kunio Kitamura, head of the clinic of the Japan Family Planning Association which took part in the survey, said the data confirms a wider social belief that younger Japanese men are becoming "herbivorous," a label attached to passive men who do not actively seek women and sex.
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Much of the anatomy of skulls and teeth in subungulates and ungulates has evolved in response to their herbivorous lifestyles.
