invasivore

English

Etymology

invasi(ve) +‎ -vore

Noun

invasivore (plural invasivores)

1. 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, →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 March 24, Rowan Jacobsen, “The Invasivore's Dilemma”, in Outside:

     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 quotations using this term, see Citations:invasivore.