herbivory in English

noun
1
the eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
in response to herbivory, plants defend themselves with arrays of structural and chemical weapons

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1. Herbivory Herbivory has been observed on the peduncles, florets, receptacle and achenes by insects, white-tailed deer, seed-eating birds and eastern cottontail rabbits.

2. Insect herbivory Antagonizes leaf cooling responses to elevated temperature in tomato Nathan E

3. ‘This concept helps link mutualism to Antagonisms such as herbivory, predation, and parasitism, interactions defined largely by the existence of costs.’

4. Chris has talked about pandas being an evolutionary cul-de-sac, and it's certainly unusual for a carnivore to take up herbivory.

5. Chelicerates were originally predators, but the group has diversified to use all the major feeding strategies: predation, parasitism, herbivory, scavenging and eating decaying organic matter

6. Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody plants such as shrubs

7. Benzaldehyde is a member of the family of “essential oils” in plants, (vanillin, for example, is 4-hydroxy-3-methoxy Benzaldehyde), which have antimicrobial and antifeedant properties to discourage parasitism and herbivory

8. Allelochemicals are a subset of secondary metabolites not required for metabolism (growth and development) of the allelopathic organism. Allelochemicals with negative allelopathic effects are an important part of plant defense against herbivory (i.e., animals eating plants as their primary food) (Fraenkel 1959; Stamp 2003).