invasivore
English
Etymology
invasi(ve) + -vore
Noun
invasivore (plural invasivores)
- A person who makes a point of eating invasive species in an effort to reduce their ecological impact.
- 2012, Larry Perez, Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, Pineapple Press (2012), →ISBN, page 97:
- “Invasivore” diets were increasingly encouraged as a hopeful means of controlling unwanted species like lionfish, Asian carp, and green mitten crabs.
- 2012, Matthew Weingarten, quoted on praise page of Jackson Landers, Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species, Storey Publishing (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- “Grab your shotgun and your frying pan, and let Eating Aliens be your guide to becoming the ultimate invasivore!”
- 2014, Rowan Jacobsen, "The Invasivore's Dilemma", Outside, 24 March 2014:
- My first training in the way of the invasivore came a few months before I met Bun, when I sat in a Boston restaurant watching New Hampshire chef Evan Mallett plate buttermilk-poached-dogfish salads.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:invasivore.
- 2012, Larry Perez, Snake in the Grass: An Everglades Invasion, Pineapple Press (2012), →ISBN, page 97: