fruit-eater

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Etymology

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From fruit +‎ eater.

Noun

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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.

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