单词 | fructivorous |
释义 | fructivorousadj. Eating or feeding on fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > herbivorous > feeding on fruit fructivorous1688 carpophagous1839 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 310/1 Fructivorous Birds such as feed upon Fruit. 1845 Zoologist 3 912 Fructivorous animals will sometimes feed on flesh. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxi. 261 Being already both fructivorous and insectivorous, the species [sc. the baboon] may be at the early beginning of becoming carnivorous also. 1970 Watsonia 8 67 Red berries for fructivorous birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1688 |
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