fruit-eater
Noun
One who eats fruit
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But he is a great fruit-eater. I have told you before of the British pie.
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These are legitimate fruit-eaters, furthering the plant's evolutionary compromise of providing food in exchange for dispersal. A seasonally available fruit is of only passing significance to an opportunist fruit-eater, but the fruit-eater may be of paramount importance to the plant that produces the fruit, and plants may become adapted to exploiting such animals as agents for seed dispersal.
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fruit-eatersfruit eaterfruiteater