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fruitarian
adjective as in vegetarian
Strong match
Weak match
Example Sentences
Kutcher adopted a fruitarian diet while preparing for his role as the late Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs in the 2013 film "Jobs."
But a case could be made that it was the fruitarian diet that killed him: metabolically, a diet of fruit is equivalent to a diet of candy, only with fructose instead of glucose, with the effect that the pancreas is strained to constantly produce more insulin.
Jobs was a vegan for most of his adult life, dabbled with the even more restrictive fruitarian diet* and would spend weeks at a time eating only one or two foods, such as apples or carrots.
I also tried being a fruitarian—all fruits, nothing else—for a while but got so skinny and weak I had to quit that.
The same guy who turned me on to being a fruitarian, claims to know breatharians.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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