fruit-eating
- adjective
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frugívoro
- Some fruit-eating birds prefer to feed on berries and fruits found in dense vegetation.
- fruit-eating birds
Examples
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(The protection alcohol confers against heart disease may come from counteracting the effects of the high-fat diet we adopted long after our ancestors' fruit-eating days were past.)
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But for fruit-eating birds, this is generally not a problem, as there are usually more berries or cherries to be had nearby.
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The study of fruit-eating animals could lead to an evolutionary understanding of human alcohol abuse.
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And sometimes these non echolocating bats are called fruit eating bats.
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The digestive adjustments are important; robins and other fruit-eating birds that might appear to be taking their ease perched on a branch may actually be working hard, digesting just as fast as they possibly can.
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Fruitbats (upper image), fruitflies, and waxwings (lower image), all fruit-eating animals, have been anecdotally described in various states of apparent inebriation.
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Aggression among female harem members also occurs in Jamaican fruit-eating bats (Artibeus jamaicensis; Ortega and Maldonado 2006).
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Intermingling with the Satin Bowerbirds are the fruit-eating Regent Bowerbirds (Sericulus chrysocephalus).
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The fruit-eating bat is crucial for pollination and seed dispersal in tropical rainforests.
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Many fruit-eating animals play a vital role in spreading seeds in their habitats.
Synonyms
An animal that eats mostly fruit as its main food
An animal that eats mostly fruit
An animal or bird that mainly eats berries
Antonyms
How Fruit-Based
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fruit-eating is made from the parts fruit and eating and literally means 'eating fruit', so it describes animals that have fruit as their main food.