Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A division of the order Chiroptera, including the fruit-eating bats of the warmer parts of the old world, such as the so-called “flying-foxes.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under
fruit .
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Examples
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The frugivora and herbivora, however, are alert and ready to fly from their enemies should such appear.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Of course, the sodium chloride in the flesh of the herbivora and frugivora is obtained from the vegetable matter forming their food, and very few of them have the opportunity of obtaining it from salt-licks and mineral sources.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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The carnivora with their short intestinal canal need the least, the frugivora more, and the herbivora a much larger quantity.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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It may possibly be traced to the same root as that of a cognate species, the _cornix frugivora;
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