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Sauropods are herbivores known for their very long necks, long tails, small head and pillar-like legs.—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025 Hamilton, a professor of biology and research science at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, studies the role bison and other large herbivores play in ecosystems.—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025 One is a short, broad body form that kept the herbivores close to the ground when on all four limbs.—ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025 And, in Patagonia at the time, that was dinosaurs – from medium-sized herbivores to smaller carnivores – whose fossils have also been unearthed in the same rock layers.—New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for herbivore
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New Latin Herbivora, group of mammals, from neuter plural of herbivorus
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