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A person who craves or has a special fondness for vegetables. Also: vegevore. [Blend of vegetable and -vore.]

These chefs and their devoted clientele are less vegetarians than vegivores, a term that connotes fervid vegetable love rather than ardent meat hate. It's a subtle but important distinction. For the vegivore, a vegetable can occupy the center of the plate, with meat adding flavor or functioning as a condiment.

—Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite, " Vegetables Are the New Meat: http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/69369/," New York Magazine, November 15, 2010

"Tomato biscuit": A crisp disk of concentrated tomato, served with basil butter and gold leaf. The Eucharist for vegivores.

—Blake Gopnik, " A Critic's Dinner: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203136.html," The Washington Post, September 23, 2009

Here it is — a traditional British dish that is suitable for all classes, vegivores or carnivores, and one which suggests a decadent, couch-potato sort of life like other great British delicacies such as Spotted Dick, Steamed Treacle Pudding, Steak and Kidney pudding and that pinnacle of very decadence itself, Jam Roly Poly.

—"Toad in the Hole," Bristol Evening Post, January 29, 2000

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