| 释义 |
fructivorous, a.|frʌkˈtɪvərəs|
[as if f. L. *frūctivor-us (f. frūct-us fruit + -vorus devouring) + -ous.]
Eating or feeding on fruit.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 310/1 Fructivorous Birds such as feed upon Fruit. 1845Zoologist III. 912 Fructivorous animals will sometimes feed on flesh. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxi. 261 Being already both fructivorous and insectivorous, the species [sc. the baboon] may be at the early beginning of becoming carnivorous also. 1970Watsonia VIII. 67 Red berries for fructivorous birds. |