Meanings of fruit-eating in inglês

His fruit-eating has little reference to the state of his appetite.

Who cares about fruit-eating pigeons, and birds called Rails, they said.

I care not that it has been borne before by some long-dead fruit-eating monkey.

For now the cherries were fast ripening, and the fruit-eating birds, especially the thrushes and

The case is different, however, with the fruit-eating birds.

Before the white man came, in fact, the kea was a mild-mannered fruit-eating or honey-sucking bird.

It is as if one should miss strawberries and begin his fruit-eating with melons and peaches.

He informed me that he had known even the big fruit-eating bats to take to bloodsucking.

Unlike fruit-eating bats, insect-eating bats like the Virginia big-eared are notoriously difficult to raise in captivity.

This comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa-constrictor.

Suffice it to say, it is generally agreed now that the dodo was a gigantic, short-winged, fruit-eating pigeon.

Of mammalia a large Pteropus, or fruit-eating bat, was seen once or twice, but no specimen was procured.

This is great news for fruit-eating animals that would otherwise struggle to find food for much of the year.

The lama dropped wearily to the ground, much as a heavy fruit-eating bat cowers, and returned to his rosary.

They are almost the only people in the Archipelago who eat the great fruit-eating bats called by us "flying foxes."

Pigeons, and other fruit-eating birds, are also the means of distributing plants, since the seeds readily germinate after passing through their bodies.