Verbivorous

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

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.”

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

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.