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  • noun Plural form of fruitarian.

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Examples

  • Some are extreme, such as fruitarians, who only eat fresh fruits.

    HowStuffWorks Daily Feed 2010

  • Nutritionists recommend that we become 'fruitarians' occasionally.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • These creatures appeared to be polite, sociable fruitarians.

    Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test Eric Felten 2011

  • Other types of "-tarians" include fruitarians (people who eat only fruit, seeds and nuts), meatatarian (usually used jocularly for people who eat mostly meat) and pescetarians (people who eat no animal flesh apart from fish or seafood).

    Week in Words 2012

  • Lop-Ear and his wife, and for several days the three of us were neither vegetarians nor fruitarians.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • Die-hard fruitarians frown on the inclusion of cooked or processed foods.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Writing this story meant getting to know fruit nuts, fruit smugglers, fruit explorers, fruit fetishists, fruit inventors, fruit cops, fruit robbers, fruitarians and even a fruit massager.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Female fruitarians talk of their bodies becoming “so chic” that they experience increased male attention.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Another problem fruitarians encounter is a deficiency in B12.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • I had heard of individual fruitarians wanting to live forever, but this was something even stranger: a utopian fruit-growing cult.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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