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Thus it is that the bones of males are harder than those of females; and the bones of flesh-eaters, that get their food by fighting, are harder than those of Herbivora.
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Fourth, the Herbivora; animals which feed upon grasses.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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Certainly the food that one eats has a psychological effect, and the flesh-eaters among the human race have a different temperament as a rule from the fruit and vegetable eaters, while among the animals (though other causes may come in here) the Carnivora are decidedly more cruel and less gentle than the Herbivora.
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This pouch is no mere figure of speech, as may be gathered from the fact that in certain of the rodent _Herbivora_, like the common guinea-pig, it may have a capacity equal to all of the rest of the alimentary canal, and in the horse it will hold something like four times as much as the stomach.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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In other _Herbivora_ with small stomachs, like the rabbit and the horse, it develops greater size.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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The food of the Carnivora contains a large proportion of fat, and the nutriment of the Herbivora is largely made up of starch and other fat-formers.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Grape sugar and the pectine bodies -- substances which form a large proportion of the food of the Herbivora -- contain more oxygen and hydrogen than exist in starch, and, consequently, are not capable of forming so large an amount of fat as an equal weight of starch.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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Herbivora (so "he eateth grass"), the idea of the hippopotamus being predominant.
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