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locavorous

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English

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Etymology

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From locavore +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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locavorous (comparative more locavorous, superlative most locavorous)

  1. Practicing or supporting locavorism
    • 2010 May 26, Devra First, “Whimsical flourishes at EVOO”, in Boston Globe:
      The pizza joint is similarly locavorous and similarly whimsical.
    • 2013, Raymond Sokolov, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food, →ISBN, page 203:
      Heartland was locavorous on steroids, and I mean that kindly.
    • 2015 August 1, Tim Walker, “J Ryan Stradal: Novelist and part-time pepper farmer tells of life on the Prairie”, in The Independent:
      But in spite of its locavorous detail, the novel's plot is driven by a universal truth: that food brings people together.