Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose diet includes raw fruits, seeds, and nuts but no vegetables, grains, or animal products.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to fruits; consisting solely of fruits and nuts, as a diet.
- noun One who holds the theory that fruits and nuts constitute the only proper food for man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A variant of
vegetarian who intends to be limited to eating only such parts of plants whose consumption does not kill the plant (such as fruits, vegetables that can be compared to fruit, nuts and grain, but not for exampletubers ). The purest fruitarians do not want to destroy even the seeds.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But it does claim to be dedicated to "vegetarian and vegan singles, raw food and fruitarian, Adventist, Buddhist and Hindu" love seekers.
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Later, on the naming of Apple, Jobs told Isaacson he was "on one of my fruitarian diets."
New Steve Jobs Biography Reveals Personal Details The Associated Press 2011
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What all the fruitarian gurus have in common is their belief that subsisting on fruits leads to transcendental experiences.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Some raw foodists I met at a raw food boutique in San Diego including a young man who was eating only raw cacao nibs and feeling “totally epic” snickered that they had recently busted their fruitarian colleague eating avocados.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Soon after I arrive, a lanky twentysomething fruitarian named Jameson pulls up on a scooter.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Most doctors warn that the fruitarian diet lacks the nutrients required for a balanced lifestyle.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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A Japanese fruitarian has reported having such supersensitive hearing that he could make out the sound of ants crawling on the ground or conversations happening six miles away.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One fruitarian Kiawe and Jameson mentioned eats nothing but nonoily fruits and raw pollen.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Because it lacks a balanced variety of amino acids, the fruitarian diet is especially dangerous for children.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The writings of Buddhist disciples portray Siddhrtha Gautama as a fruitarian.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
vmarinelli commented on the word fruitarian
A bizarre dietary dogma among some of the hippies and New Agers I grew up with.
February 7, 2007
madmouth commented on the word fruitarian
closely coincides with the Jain diet.
July 3, 2009