fruit-eating

1. 1.

   feeding on fruit

   Synonymscarpophagous

   Similarherbivorous

Questions about fruit-eating

What does fruit-eating mean?

fruit-eating means "feeding on fruit".

How many syllables are in fruit-eating?

fruit-eating has 5 syllables: fru-i-t-e-a-ting. The stress falls on "t-e".

What is another word for fruit-eating?

Close synonyms include carpophagous. 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 fruit-eating a common word?

fruit-eating 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.