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localvore

localvore is the alternative form of locavore.

Meaning of locavore

Noun

locavore (plural locavores)

  1. (neologism) One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.
    • So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a...2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry...
    Synonyms:
    localvore
    Antonyms:
    distavore

Forms of localvore

plurallocalvores

Origin of localvore

From local + -vore.

Questions about localvore

What is localvore the alternative form of?
Localvore is the alternative form of locavore.

Words near localvore in the dictionary

  1. locally ringed space
  2. locally ringed spaces
  3. locally small
  4. localness
  5. locals
  6. localvore
  7. localvores
  8. locant
  9. locants
  10. locao
  11. locarnise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: localvore (page history and authors); locavore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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