balanophagous

Adjective

balanephagous (not comparable)

1. (rare) Acorn-eating.
   • The man with whom we take shelter has his wife and children, and his sons’ wives and all their children, to the number of twelve or fifteen, in the tent. Milk and misíthra is their only food: “We have milk in plenty,” they tell me, “but no bread.” Such is the life of a modern Arcadian shepherd, who...1830, William Martin Leake, “chapter 11: Messenia — Arcadia”, in Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans, volume 1, pages 487–488