Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeding on fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eating or subsisting on fish; fish-eating; piscivorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Eating, or subsisting on, fish.
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- adjective biology
feeding onfish
Etymologies
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Examples
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If, on its coasts, the sea washes nothing but almost inaccessible rocks, let it remain barbarous and ichthyophagous: it will have a quieter, perhaps a better, and certainly a happier life.
The Social Contract 2002
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On the sea shore, and the banks of rivers, they invented the line and the hook, and became fishermen and ichthyophagous.
Second Part 1909
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In accordance with the nomenclature of Latham, the Eskimo may be spoken of as Hyperborean Mongolidæ of essentially carnivorous and ichthyophagous habits, who have not yet emerged from the hunting and fishing stage.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871
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FROM ROME TO GAUL is, considering the means of modern locomotion, no great way; but the ancient sumptuary laws of that kingdom give us little information regarding the ichthyophagous propensities of its inhabitants.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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FROM ROME TO GAUL is, considering the means of modern locomotion, no great way; but the ancient sumptuary laws of that kingdom give us little information regarding the ichthyophagous propensities of its inhabitants.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Pliny and Diodorus Siculus have described the fish-bread of the ichthyophagous nations, that dwelt on the Persian Gulf and the shores of the Red Sea.
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Pliny and Diodorus Siculus have described the fish-bread of the ichthyophagous nations, that dwelt on the Persian Gulf and the shores of the Red Sea.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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On the sea shore, and the banks of rivers, they invented the line and the hook, and became fishermen and ichthyophagous.
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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The forests resound with the cries of parrots and other birds of beautiful plumage; from any point on the coast pelicans and other ichthyophagous birds can be observed darting into the waters after their prey; the lakes and rivers are the home of thousands of wild ducks; myriads of wild pigeons breed in the woods; and the number of insectivorous birds, including the sweet-singing nightingale, jilguero and turpial, the swallow and the small pitirre and colibri, is infinite.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
reesetee commented on the word ichthyophagous
eating or subsisting on fish
May 1, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word ichthyophagous
piscivorous
July 24, 2010