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Overbrowse vs Overbrows - What's the difference?

overbrowse | overbrows |

As verbs the difference between overbrowse and overbrows

is that overbrowse is (ambitransitive) to browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment while overbrows is (overbrow).

overbrowse

English

Verb

(overbrows)
  • (ambitransitive) To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
  • * 1995 , David B Rockwell, Glacier National Park: a natural history guide
    • As their numbers peak, the hares begin to overbrowse aspen and other plants.
  • * 1999 , Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield, Holistic management: a new framework for decision making
    • The few elephants that remained continued to overbrowse the trees, now ripping the bark off them as well and speeding their demise.

    See also

    * overgraze

    overbrows

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overbrow)

    • overbrow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
    • (Longfellow)
    Did with a huge projection overbrow / Large space beneath. — Wordsworth.
    (Webster 1913)