fruiteaterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

fruit +‎ eater

名詞

fruiteater (複数形 fruiteaters)

1. Any of the Pipreola genus of thickset birds, or Ampelioides tschudii; they live in humid areas of South America.
2. Alternative form of fruit-eater (“one who eats fruit”) (Can we add an example for this sense?)

語源

From fruit +‎ eater.

名詞

fruit-eater (複数形 fruit-eaters)

1. One who eats fruit
   • 1906, Official Report of the ... Fruit-Growers' Convention of the State of California:

     But he is a great fruit-eater. I have told you before of the British pie.

   • 1980, Jennifer Owen, Feeding Strategy:

     These are legitimate fruit-eaters, furthering the plant's evolutionary compromise of providing food in exchange for dispersal. A seasonally available fruit is of only passing significance to an opportunist fruit-eater, but the fruit-eater may be of paramount importance to the plant that produces the fruit, and plants may become adapted to exploiting such animals as agents for seed dispersal.

同意語

• frugivore

参考

• fruitarian