Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeding on fish; fish-eating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fish-eating, as a bird; habitually eating or feeding upon fishes; ichthyophagous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That feeds on
fish ; fish-eating
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeding on fishes
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Examples
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Toxaphene toxaphene is the major organochlorine contaminant in all fish analyzed highest toxaphene levels are generally seen in fish that are strictly piscivorous toxaphene concentrations in fish tend to increase with increasing fish size
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High levels of pollutants in Ajan Bund are believed to be responsible for the increasing number of piscivorous birds seen in a dazed state and unable to fly.
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Some piscivorous species also consume crustaceans, mollusks, and marine worms, while some planktivorous species occasionally eat fish.
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It has the world's largest concentration of wintering shorebirds and extremely diversified communities of nesting piscivorous birds - about 15 species.
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The dominant piscivorous fish has been Atlantic cod, but Greenland halibut and American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) have also been important.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada 2009
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Climate change causes contrasting trends in reproductive performance of planktivorous and piscivorous alcids.
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Lake trout were apparently illegally stocked in Yellowstone Lake some time before 1994 and threaten the native cutthroat trout and piscivorous species and ecosystem that depend on them - grizzly bears, bald eagles and several other species of mammals and birds.
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The highly piscivorous (i.e., fish-eating) arrowtooth flounder is found mostly on the outer shelf area, as is flathead sole, which mainly consumes brittle stars.
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Rahel, F. and R. Stein 1988, Complex predator/prey interactions and predator intimidation among crayfish, piscivorous fish, and small benthic fish.
Top-down control 2008
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Unwin et al. (1997) noted that ‘unpublished functional studies and the circumstances of their preservation suggest that [azhdarchids] may have been piscivorous … feeding from the water surface while on the wing and using the long neck as a ‘fishing rod’’ (p. 48).
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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