locavorous

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adjective

Practicing or supporting locavorism

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivelocavorous (comparative more locavorous, superlative most locavorous)

comparative more locavorous · superlative most locavorous

  1. Practicing or supporting locavorism

    Heartland was locavorous on steroids, and I mean that kindly.

    2013, Raymond Sokolov, Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food, →ISBN, page 203
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    The pizza joint is similarly locavorous and similarly whimsical.

    2010 May 26, Devra First, “Whimsical flourishes at EVOO”, in Boston Globe

    But in spite of its locavorous detail, the novel's plot is driven by a universal truth: that food brings people together.

    2015 August 1, Tim Walker, “J Ryan Stradal: Novelist and part-time pepper farmer tells of life on the Prairie”, in The Independent

Origin

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Chicago

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