prettygoodword (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
prettygoodword) wrote2017-08-29 07:47 am
prettygoodword) wrote2017-08-29 07:47 am
frugivore
With my employment situation finally settling out, I should be back to posting regularly. Kicking this off:
frugivore (FROO-juh-vawr) - n., an animal that eats primarily or exclusively fruit.
Fruit bats being one obvious example, chimpanzees a less obvious one, and a fruititarian probably also counts. Frugivores are, of course, important mechanisms for seed dispersal, and plants make fruit good to eat in part to make this likely. Coined in the early 1970s from frugivorous, itself coined around 1710 from Latin roots frūx, fruit, in its combining form of frūgi- + -vorous, eating.
---L.
frugivore (FROO-juh-vawr) - n., an animal that eats primarily or exclusively fruit.
Fruit bats being one obvious example, chimpanzees a less obvious one, and a fruititarian probably also counts. Frugivores are, of course, important mechanisms for seed dispersal, and plants make fruit good to eat in part to make this likely. Coined in the early 1970s from frugivorous, itself coined around 1710 from Latin roots frūx, fruit, in its combining form of frūgi- + -vorous, eating.
---L.