fruitarian

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The youngest child, and the only one who has lived as a fruitarian almost from infancy was certainly undeveloped.

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  1. noun One whose diet includes fruits, seeds, and nuts but no vegetables, grains, or animal products.

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  • Fish is the antibrain food as fruitarian and vegetarian geniuses DaVinci, Einstein, Ramanujan, Mary Shelley and others can attest.
  • (Lisbon) writes:--For five months I have been a strict fruitarian," and as I am obliged now to go to Mozambique Portuguese East Africa) to remain there five rears, I should be much obliged to you if you kindly let me know what I must do to prevent the African fever and biliousness which seem to afflict all Europeans in that part of the world. —  The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine
  • The youngest child, and the only one who has lived as a fruitarian almost from infancy was certainly undeveloped. —  The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
  • Just now he is revelling in Called Back and The House on the Marsh_, which are being read aloud to him by his private secretary Mr. ARTHUR PONSONBY, M.P., the Democratic Controller, is a confirmed fruitarian, and attributes his robust health to a diet of Morella cherries and Carlsbad plums, washed down with Stockholm tar-water Mr. JOHN BURNS, who happily describes himself as "a dormant volcano" has of late found an agreeable stimulant in the performance of solos on the muted first violin Lastly, Mr. LEO MAXSE keeps himself keyed up to concert pitch by coining new nicknames for Lord HALDANE. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 22, 1917
  • There is no redemption for women on the earth who have the care of kitchens except through simpler, smaller meals--meals so very far apart that there shall be a maximum of the hunger-sense of relish and the resulting maximum of power to convert them into tissues instinct with life It may be that the waste is so very trifling, especially with brain-workers, that one may be a vegetarian, fruitarian, or even an eater of pork, without positive violence to practical physiology. —  The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
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  1. Blend of fruit and (veget)arian.

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  1. fruit + -arian. The proper type would be fructuarian.
 

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