Usage 1: This word is sometimes pronounced without the initial "h" ['êr-bê-vor] in the US because the one word preserving the English Cockney loss of initial "h" in the US the word "herb", pronounced [êrb]. Using "an" before "historical" and dropping the initial "h" in that word (but not "history") is a similar error that has also crept into US spoken English. The "h" should be pronounced in all these words, as they are in most other dialects of English.
Suggested usage: You can use this word to refer to any animal that eats only vegetation, e.g. "cows and giraffes are herbivores." The term also applies to vegetarians, who are, after all, human herbivores.
Etymology: Latin herb- "vegetation, grass" and vor-o "I swallow", also found in voracious "very hungry, having a strong appetite", and devour "eat greedily".
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