The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Plant-eating \Plant"-eat`ing\, a. Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
plant-eating adj 1: (of animals) feeding on plants [syn: plant-eating(a), phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous]