herbivory

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English

Etymology

From herbivore +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: her‧biv‧o‧ry

Noun

herbivory (uncountable)

  1. (ecology) The consumption of living plant tissue by animals.
    • 1998, Sam Scheiner, Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments, CRC Press (→ISBN), page 183
      Herbivory is a paradoxical interspecific interaction. On the one hand, upward of a quarter of all species are herbivorous insects (Strong et al., 1984) and some additional fraction of the noninsect species is also herbivorous, so plant-herbivore interactions are common. On the other hand, the simple observation is that, to a first approximation, the earth is green (Hairston et al., 1960), despite the combined effect of those herbivores.
    • 2009, J. Wiebe and E. Mouton, Nutria Harvest and Distribution 2008-2009 and a Survey of Nutria Herbivory Damage in Coastal Louisiana in 2009

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