frugivorous

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They are frugivorous, and inhabit the canopies of lowland forests ...

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  1. adjective Feeding on fruit; fruit-eating.

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  • Take a dispersal agent such as the frugivorous coppersmith barbet. —  The annotated budak
  • Sun bears too are highly frugivorous, with some populations heavily reliant on the fruiting cycles of forest figs. —  The annotated budak
  • They are frugivorous, and inhabit the canopies of lowland forests ... —  Ugly Overload
  • (04 / 23 / 2008) Pregnant and lactating frugivorous bats ingest dirt in order to detoxify plant compounds in the fruit they eat, report researchers writing in the journal A billion trees to be planted in Brazil's Atlantic Forest over the next 7 years —  Mongabay.com News
  • "Indeed, the local extinction of frugivorous primates is predicted to have deleterious consequences for forest regeneration and / or tree species community composition." —  Mongabay.com News
 

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  1. Latin frūx, frūg-, fruit + -vorous.

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  1. = French frugivore = Portuguese Italian frugivoro, from L. frux (frug-), fruits, + vorare, devour.
 

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/fruˈdʒɪvoʊrəs/
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