fruitarian
/fruːˈtɛːrɪən
/noun
A person who eats only fruit: I have been a fruitarian for three years [as modifier]: the prehistoric fruitarian diet...
- All are vegetarians, many are vegans and some, including Ella, are fruitarians, living off a diet of nothing but fruit.
- There's lacto-ovo, lacto, ovo, vegan, macrobiotic, raw foodists and fruitarians.
- A typical advertisement will often say ‘all meals are meat meals’ or ‘vegetarians welcome’, although we did find one that said, ‘no fruitarians please!’
Derivatives
fruitarianism
/ noun ...- He added that yoga practitioners in some of the European countries have gone an extra yard practising ‘fruitarianism’.
- So the only reason you tried fruitarianism was so you could make fun of them and not be a hypocrite, right?
- His stamina is indefatigable and he hasn't had a cold since he converted to raw food fruitarianism.
Origin
Late 19th century: from fruit, on the pattern of vegetarian.
Rhymes
- photogen
- photogene
- photo-generated
- photogenic
- photogenically
- photogenic drawing
- photogenous
- photogeny
- photogeologic
- photogeological
- photogeologically
- photogeologist
- photogeology
- photoglyph
- photoglyphic
- photoglyphography
- photoglyphy
- photogoniometer
- photogoniometric
- photogoniometry
- photogram
- photogrammeter
- photogrammetric
- photogrammetrical
- photogrammetrically