FRUIT-EATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruit-eating mean? 

• FRUIT-EATING (adjective)
  The adjective FRUIT-EATING has 1 sense:

1. feeding on fruit

  Familiarity information: FRUIT-EATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUIT-EATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeding on fruit

Synonyms:

carpophagous; fruit-eating

Similar:

herbivorous (feeding only on plants)

 Context examples 

For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)