verbivorous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book."
- "In being verbivorous, humans are unique among the earth's creatures. We have a different kind of life than nonverbal animals, a kind of life that we can call generically “spiritual.”"
- "Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal."
- "The verbivorous author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll evinced a prodigious talent for merging two words and beheading parts of one or both."
Inflected Forms
more verbivorous (comparative)
most verbivorous (superlative)