草食

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 草食 is read as そうしょく and means herbivory, the feeding pattern of eating plants as the primary food.
• Basic usage: Use 草食の動物 for a herbivorous animal and 草食だった恐竜 for a dinosaur that was herbivorous.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Difference between 草食 and 肉食
  • The former is a plant-based feeding pattern, whereas the latter is a feeding pattern based mainly on the flesh of other animals.