phytivorous

[Gr. phyton a plant, and Latin voro = to devour (q. v.).] Phytophagous (q. v.). "Hairy animals, with only two large fore teeth, are all phytirorous, and called the hare-kind." - Ray: On the Creation. phy-to-, pref. [Gr. phyton=a plant.] Pertaining or relating to plants. strong purgative. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, -cian, -tian = shan. -tion -sion = shăn; -tion, phytotoma herbs, with alternate, entire, exstipulate leaves, sometimes with pellucid dots. Sepals four or five, in some species petaloid; stamens often indefinite. carpels one or more, each with an ascending ovule fruit baccate or dry, indehiscent. Natives of America, Africa and India. Genera twenty, species seventy-seven. ( Lindley .)