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Bill W

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Herbivora is derived from Latin herba (small plant, herb) and vora, from vorare (to eat, devour).  Herbivore is the anglicized form of a modern Latin coinage, herbivora, cited in Charles Lyell's 1830 Principles of Geology. Richard Owen employed the anglicized term in an 1854 work on fossil teeth and skeletons. 

Besides cattle, horses, deer, kangaroos, elephants, camels, giraffes, bison, beavers, goats, moose, elks, zebras, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, manatee, and many other animals are herbivores.  Others may be carnivores, which means they eat meat, or omnivores, which means they eat both plants and meat.  

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drpaladin

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If one only would date guys named Herb, could they be considered herbivores?

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Paladin

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9 hours ago, drpaladin said:

If one only would date guys named Herb, could they be considered herbivores?

Now if one only ate guys named herb would that be herbalism or herbicide or just having fun? :)

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Paladin

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14 hours ago, Bill W said:

Besides cattle, horses, deer, kangaroos, elephants, camels, giraffes, bison, beavers, goats, moose, elks, zebras, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, manatee, and many other animals are herbivores.

Of course a human animal herbivore is now called a vegan.

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46 minutes ago, Paladin said:

Of course a human animal herbivore is now called a vegan.

Vegan is easier to spell.

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drpaladin

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49 minutes ago, Paladin said:

vegan

One of the funniest things I've heard of is vegan leather. It used to be called vinyl and it was to be found in ragged mobile homes.

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