herbivore

1. 1.

   any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants

   “horses are herbivores”

   “the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores”

   Broaderanimal

Other forms of herbivore

plural

herbivores·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about herbivore

What does herbivore mean?

herbivore means "any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants".

How many syllables are in herbivore?

herbivore has 3 syllables: her-bi-vore. The stress falls on "her". In IPA it is /ˈhɝbɪˌvɔɹ/.

Is herbivore a common word?

herbivore is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with herbivore?

1 word rhymes with herbivore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.