fruitarian

[ froo-tair-ee-uhn ]

noun

1. a person whose diet consists chiefly of fruit.

fruitarian

/ fruːˈtɛərɪən /

noun

1. a person who eats only fruit

adjective

1. of or relating to a fruitarian

   a fruitarian diet

Derived Forms

• fruiˈtarianˌism, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fruitarian¹

1890–95; fruit + -arian, on the model of vegetarian

Example Sentences

Commenters on another post offered advice to a mother whose young adult daughter had just learned she had HPV and an irregular pap-smear with suggestions like detoxing, switching her daughter to a fruitarian diet, and never getting a pap-smear again.

From Popular-Science

Then this partial vegetarian diet can be still further purified, until it is more entirely "fruitarian" in its nature.

From Project Gutenberg

The Simple Breakfast.In most fruitarian households the cooking for breakfast soon becomes simplified and lessened.

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Here is a new profession for women—for teachers of high-class fruitarian and hygienic cookery will soon be greatly in demand.

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Fruitarian foods such as the above are more nourishing than butcher's meat.

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If you are not getting on, obtain advice from a Doctor who is a fruitarian or from an experienced Food-reformer.

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