Definition of Frugivores

1. Noun. (plural of frugivore) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frugivores

1. frugivore [n] - See also: frugivore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frugivores

frug
frugal
frugalism
frugalista
frugalistas
frugalities
frugality
frugally
frugalness
frugged
frugging
frugiferent
frugiferous
frugivora
frugivore
frugivores (current term)
frugivorous
frugs
fruict
fruicts
fruit'y
fruit-bearing
fruit-cake
fruit-eating(a)
fruit-tree
fruit bar
fruit bat
fruit bats
fruit bowl

Literary usage of Frugivores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"Attracting frugivores to pioneer forest could speed up forest regeneration by increasing the amount of primary forest fruits that are deposited in ..."

2. Current Issues in Non-timber Forest Products Research: Proceedings of the by Manuel Ruiz Perez, J. E. M. Arnold (1996)
"Commercial collectors, in effect, are competitors with forest frugivores, ... In response to the reduced abundance of fruits and seeds, frugivores might be ..."

3. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"... gnawing animals like rabbits or mice (but not true rodents), and that others were either fruit eaters (frugivores) or even insect eaters (insectivores). ..."

4. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society (1914)
"... that nature had followed in the New World a course opposite to that followed on our continent where all land animals of the largest size are frugivores. ..."

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