verbivorousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

verbivorous ‎(comparative more verbivorous, superlative most verbivorous)

1. Consuming or devouring words.
   • 1969, Elementary English (volume 46, page 464)

     Tale of some "verbivorous" mice who nibble all the biggest words off the page of the professor's book.

   • 1997, Robert Campbell Roberts, ‎Mark R. Talbot, Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Psychology (page 81)

     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.”

   • 2000, Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay

     Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal.

   • 2012, Richard Lederer, Amazing Words

     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.