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PRONUNCIATION OF MEGAHERBIVORE

megaherbivore  [ˈmeɡəˌhɜːbɪvɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEGAHERBIVORE

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Megaherbivore is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MEGAHERBIVORE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

megaherbivore

Megafauna

In terrestrial zoology, megafauna are large or giant animals. The most common thresholds used are 45 kilograms or 100 kilograms. This thus includes many species not popularly thought of as overly large, such as white-tailed deer, red kangaroo, and humans. In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land animals roughly larger than a human that are not domesticated. The term is especially associated with the Pleistocene megafauna — the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age, such as mammoths, the majority of which in northern Eurasia, the Americas and Australia became extinct as recently as 10,000–40,000 years ago. It is also commonly used for the largest extant wild land animals, especially elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and large bovines. Megafauna may be subcategorized by their trophic position into megaherbivores, megacarnivores, and, more rarely, megaomnivores.

Definition of megaherbivore in the English dictionary

The definition of megaherbivore in the dictionary is a large herbivore, such as an elephant, weighing more than 1000kg.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEGAHERBIVORE


ava
əˈvɔː
carnivore
ˈkɑːnɪˌvɔː
detritovore
dɪˈtraɪtəˌvɔː
frugivore
ˈfruːdʒɪˌvɔː
granivore
ˈɡrænɪvɔː
herbivore
ˈhɜːbɪˌvɔː
insectivore
ɪnˈsɛktɪˌvɔː
omnivore
ˈɒmnɪˌvɔː
piscivore
ˈpɪsɪˌvɔː
voar
vɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEGAHERBIVORE

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megafauna
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Synonyms and antonyms of megaherbivore in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «megaherbivore» into 25 languages

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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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Translator English - Hindi

megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbívoros
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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मेगाहेर्व्होर
75 millions of speakers

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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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megaherbivore
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Trends of use of megaherbivore

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGAHERBIVORE»

The term «megaherbivore» is barely ever used and occupies the 202.096 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MEGAHERBIVORE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about megaherbivore

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGAHERBIVORE»

Discover the use of megaherbivore in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to megaherbivore and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time
Third, Marshall and Hecht (see Table 17) tabulated the megaherbivore component (i.e. occupants of the megaherbivore adaptive zone) of the South American late Cenozoic land mammal fauna. The native non—ungulate members of the ...
Matthew Nitecki, 2012
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The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and ...
Megaherbivore. 5. 5.1 Introduction The feeding habits of the largest land mammals have naturally attracted a lot of attention, if only for the sheer quantity and variety of plants they consume and the impact they make on their habitats. Both in ...
Center for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Raman Sukumar Associate Professor of Ecology, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, 2003
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Issues in Life Sciences—Zoology: 2013 Edition
University. of. Witwatersrand,. Wits: Selective. feeding. by. a. megaherbivore,. the. African. elephant. (Loxodonta. africana). By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly — Research findings on Mammal Research are ...
‎2013
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Return of the Unicorns: Natural History and Conservation of ...
The. Biology. of. an. Endangered. Megaherbivore. THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF conservation biology — the science of scarcity and diversity — has created a framework for assessing the demographic, genetic, and environmental risks facing ...
Eric Dinerstein, 2013
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Issues in Biological, Biochemical, and Evolutionary Sciences ...
extinct. megaherbivore. By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter — Investigators publish new report on Engineering. According to news reporting originating in Bristol, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, ...
‎2013
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Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and ...
Megaherbivore extinctions rippled through the animal kingdom, causing further population reductions, food web collapses, and extinctions among animals dependent on megafaunal activities or presence. Openland-dependent, nonmigrating ...
John A. Wiens, Gregory D. Hayward, Hugh D, Safford, 2012
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Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology
An account of the limitations and advantages conferred by large body size. This book is an account of the general ecology of the largest land mammals, emphasizing the constraints imposed by a very large body size.
R. Norman Owen-Smith, 1992
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
As a dinosaur megaherbivore (or any animal, for that matter), you are the product of millions of years of evolution that has weeded out unsuccessful forms and perpetuated those best adapted for feeding, avoiding predation, and passing on  ...
Scott D. Sampson, 2009
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A View to a Kill: Investigating Middle Palaeolithic ...
She lists the exact numbers of identified megaherbivore bones per level (see table 5.6). Only in level IIA were remains present in sufficient numbers for its quantitative study to have any significance. Nevertheless, the rhinoceros remains from ...
Gerrit Leendert Dusseldorp, 2009
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Wildlife and People: The Human Dimensions of Wildlife Ecology
Such habitat changes would have been detrimental to the distribution and abundance of smaller herbivores dependent upon the nutrient-rich and spatially diverse vegetation created by megaherbivore impact. At the same time these species ...
Gary G. Gray, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEGAHERBIVORE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term megaherbivore is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to 'empty landscapes'
But, according to the authors, the underlying drivers behind megaherbivore loss is the same as biodiversity loss in general. "The ultimate forces ... «Mongabay.com, May 15»
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The only male northern white rhino left in the entire world is under …
Rhinos, considered a “megaherbivore,” are a keystone species and play a pivotal role in ecosystems. Removal of a keystone species has huge ... «Business Insider Australia, Apr 15»
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Why The Extinction Of All Rhinos Could Be Catastrophic
Rhinos, considered a “megaherbivore,” are a keystone species and play a pivotal role in ecosystems. Removal of a keystone species has huge ... «Business Insider Australia, Oct 14»
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When rewilding isn't mad: guanacos can transform the espinal of Chile
This trait, called compensatory growth, is likely to be an adaptation to it having been pruned (eaten) by a megaherbivore in the past – one that ... «The Conversation, Mar 14»
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New Zealand Moa Were Fine Until Humans Arrived
... New Zealand megaherbivore, moa, a distant relative of the Australian Emu, did go extinct shortly after Polynesians arrived in the late 1200s. «Science 2.0, Mar 14»
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Elephants are really messy eaters — and that's great for other animals
That point was driven home in recent research showing that the elephant's destructive feeding habits have benefits for another "megaherbivore ... «The Week Magazine, Mar 14»
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Poaching threatens savannah ecosystems
White rhinoceros may be extinct in twenty years with the current poaching rates. The loss of this megaherbivore is in itself a tragedy, but it may ... «Phys.Org, Feb 14»
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Scientists Discover the World's Oldest Communal Toilet
It was an eight-foot-long megaherbivore similar to modern-day rhinos. Why not do a movie based on them, Syfy? The prehistoric pooper lived ... «The Mary Sue, Dec 13»
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Prehistoric poo discovered in Argentina
The team plans to investigate the area further and do thorough analysis of the megaherbivore poop discovered in the area to know more about ... «Tech Times, Dec 13»
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Prehistoric 'Toilet' Unearthed In Argentina Linked To Homely …
Unearthed in Argentina, the latrine was used about 240 million years ago by Dinodontosaurus, a megaherbivore that LiveScience likened to a ... «Huffington Post, Dec 13»

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