Eating vs. Frugivorous — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Eating and Frugivorous
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Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive — carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus.
Frugivorous
Feeding on fruit; fruit-eating.
Eating
Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking
Good eating apples.
Frugivorous
Having a diet that consists mostly of fruit; fruit-eating.
Although the vampire bat is known for feeding on blood, most species of bat eat insects, and many are frugivorous.
Eating
Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table
Eating utensils.
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Frugivorous
Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Eating
Bred to be eaten.
Eating chickens; eating quails
Eating
Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
Wait! That's not an eating apple.
Eating
The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
Eating
Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Eating
The act of consuming food
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