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What is another word for Frugivorous?

Pronunciation: [fɹuːd͡ʒˈɪvəɹəs] (IPA)

Frugivorous is a term used to describe animals that primarily feed on fruits. However, there are many synonyms to this word that can be used in different contexts depending on the specific animal's diet. For instance, herbivorous is a synonym that is commonly used to describe animals that feed on plants. Another synonym could be fruit-eating, which can be used interchangeably with frugivorous. Moreover, granivorous describes animals that feed on seeds while nectarivorous is used for animals that feed on nectar. Lastly, folivorous describes animals that feed on leaves, which is also another synonym for frugivorous. Overall, there are many different ways to describe an animal's diet and these synonyms can be useful when writing or researching about animals.
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They live in communities consisting of about a dozen individuals, and are strictly monogamous in their conjugal relations, and vegetarian, or rather Frugivorous, in their diet, their favourite food being bananas."
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
With this view he finds it advisable that one of his fundamental divisions should be into warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals; or into animals which breathe with lungs and those which breathe with gills; or into carnivorous, and Frugivorous or graminivorous; or into those which walk on the flat part and those which walk on the extremity of the foot, a distinction on which some of Cuvier's families are founded.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles Frugivorous animals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.

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