fruit-eater

See also: fruiteater

English

Alternative forms

• fruit eater, fruiteater

Etymology

From fruit +‎ eater.

Noun

fruit-eater (plural fruit-eaters)

1. One who eats fruit
   • 1906, Official Report of the ... Fruit-Growers' Convention of the State of California:

     But he is a great fruit-eater. I have told you before of the British pie.

   • 1980, Jennifer Owen, Feeding Strategy:

     These are legitimate fruit-eaters, furthering the plant's evolutionary compromise of providing food in exchange for dispersal. A seasonally available fruit is of only passing significance to an opportunist fruit-eater, but the fruit-eater may be of paramount importance to the plant that produces the fruit, and plants may become adapted to exploiting such animals as agents for seed dispersal.

Synonyms

• frugivore

See also

• fruitarian