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locavorous

locavorous adjective: practicing or supporting locavorism.

Adjective

locavorous (comparative more locavorous, superlative most locavorous)

  1. Practicing or supporting locavorism
    • The pizza joint is similarly locavorous and similarly whimsical.2010 May 26, Devra First, “Whimsical flourishes at EVOO”, in Boston Globe
    • Heartland was locavorous on steroids, and I mean that kindly.2013, Raymond Sokolov, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food, →ISBN, page 203

Forms of locavorous

comparativemore locavorous
superlativemost locavorous

Origin of locavorous

From locavore + -ous.

Questions about locavorous

What does locavorous mean?
Locavorous means practicing or supporting locavorism.
What part of speech is locavorous?
Locavorous is an adjective.

Words near locavorous in the dictionary

  1. locator outer markers
  2. locators
  3. locavore
  4. locavores
  5. locavorism
  6. locavorous
  7. LOCC
  8. LoCced
  9. loccer
  10. loccers
  11. LoCcing

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