carpophagous

1. 1.

   feeding on fruit

   Synonymsfruit-eating

   Similarherbivorous

Questions about carpophagous

What does carpophagous mean?

carpophagous means "feeding on fruit".

How many syllables are in carpophagous?

carpophagous has 4 syllables: car-po-pha-gous. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for carpophagous?

Close synonyms include fruit-eating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carpophagous a common word?

carpophagous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.