What is the difference between frugivorous and fruit?
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Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
Frugivorous is a related term of fruit.
As a adjective frugivorous
is having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.As a noun fruit is
(botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As a verb fruit is
to produce fruit.frugivorous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Although the vampire bat is known for feeding on blood, most species of bat eat insects, and many are frugivorous .
fruit
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(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown