The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frugivorous \Fru*giv"o*rous\, a. [L. frux, frugis, fruit +
vorare to devour.: cf. F. frugivore.]
Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
--Pennant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"feeding on fruits," 1833, from Latin frugi-, stem of frux "fruit, produce" (see frugal) + -vorous.
Wiktionary
a. Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
Usage examples of "frugivorous".
In many frugivorous animals, the canine teeth are more pointed and distinct than those of man.
But it seemed to me highly improbable, if not totally incredible, that when brought together these frugivorous tree-dwellers and carnivorous savannah-dwellers would so radically carve out their niches as to pay no attention to each other.
Bats that rely on smell or eyesight to hunt tend to be frugivorous or nectarivorous.
These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also.
But when, through the perversions of civilized life, frugivorous man is forced to eat as fast as the carnivores, he instinctively adopts a similar diet.
Cuvier places them after the Bats, but they seem properly to link the Lemurs and the frugivorous Bats.
These bats and some of the following genus, which are also frugivorous, are distinguished from the rest of the bats by a claw on the first or index finger, which is short.
They live in communities consisting of about a dozen individuals, and are strictly monogamous in their conjugal relations, and vegetarian, or rather frugivorous, in their diet, their favourite food being bananas.