frugivorous
frugivorous adjective: having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
Adjective
frugivorous (comparative more frugivorous, superlative most frugivorous)
- Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
- Although the vampire bat is known for feeding on blood, most species of bat eat insects, and many are frugivorous.
- All four primary objectives (development of diagnostic DNA tools for maggot identification; selection of natural enemies for biological control of tephritid pests; taxonomic work on tephritid flies; and discerning patterns of utilization wild host plants by frugivorous tephritid pests) were...(Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023
frugivorous meaning in Hindi and Tamil
frugivorous in Hindi
- having a diet that consists mostly of fruit
- फलाहारी phalāhārī
frugivorous in Tamil
- பழமுண்ணுகின்ற
Forms of frugivorous
| comparative | more frugivorous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most frugivorous |
Origin of frugivorous
From Latin frūx (“fruit”) + -vorous.
Words formed from frugivorous
Words that rhyme with frugivorous
- omnivorous
- carnivorous
- insectivorous
- algivorous
- amphivorous
- aphidivorous
- aurivorous
- baccivorous
- canivorous
- detritivorous
- equivorous
- fructivorous
26 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- fucivorous
- fungivorous
- graminivorous
- granivorous
- herbivorous
- hominivorous
- larvivorous
- lichenivorous
- lignivorous
- nectarivorous
- oryzivorous
- ovivorous
- phytivorous
- piscivorous
- planktivorous
- plantivorous
- plurivorous
- pollinivorous
- ranivorous
- sanguinivorous
- sanguivorous
- seminivorous
- uncarnivorous
- vegetivorous
- vermivorous
- zooplanktivorous
Questions about frugivorous
- What does frugivorous mean?
- Frugivorous means having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
- What is frugivorous in Hindi?
- Frugivorous in Hindi is फलाहारी (phalāhārī). See Frugivorous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is frugivorous?
- Frugivorous is an adjective.
Words near frugivorous in the dictionary
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