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Definition of Frugivorous
1. a. Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Definition of Frugivorous
1. Adjective. Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frugivorous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Frugivorous
1. Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Origin: L. Frux, frugis, fruit + vorare to devour., cf. F. Frugivore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frugivorous
Literary usage of Frugivorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Martin's Natural History: Containing Two Hundred and Sixty-two Beautifully by F. Martin (1874)
"... even after the old one is killed. The genuine tribe of bats is divided into
two classes—the carnivorous and frugivorous. 1. frugivorous BATS, OR ..."
2. Physiology of Bodily Exercise by Fernand Lagrange (1890)
"... frugivorous Animals and Hunting Animals ; the Flesh of the Haie and the Flesh
of the Wolf—The Labourer and the Scholar—How we must explain " Habituation ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... by its short, strong, and hooked conformation, to say nothing of the frugivorous
habits oí the Barbels, while the straighter and more lengthened bill of ..."
4. Observations on the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs: And on Mr. Paine's by Brooke Boothby (1792)
"... coequal with his natural powers, and capacities, and wants ; like the rights
of the carnivorous to devour the frugivorous animals, and theirs to ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1851)
"Bell has pronounced that man, in his primitive state, must have been a frugivorous
animal, because all the monkey tribe are recognised as such ; while, ..."
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