browse
The leaves, twigs, and shoots of woody plants eaten by herbivores — deer, elk, moose, goats. Distinguished from "graze," which refers to eating grasses and ground-level plants. A browse line — the sharp horizontal boundary on trees and shrubs where everything below a certain height has been eaten — is one of the most visible signs of deer overpopulation in a forest.
Etymology
Old French broust, a sprout or young shoot. The word originally named the food, not the act of eating it. The verb sense ("to browse") came later.
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