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piscetarian

piscetarian is the alternative spelling of pescetarian.

Meaning of pescetarian

Noun

pescetarian (plural pescetarians)

  1. A person who consumes no animal flesh with the exception of fish or seafood.
    • I'm curious what you do when you encounter a friend, family member, whoever who claims to be a "vegetarian who eats fish". It *really* bothers me when this happens because it contributes to the assumption that I eat fish and I don't, because I am a vegetarian. I feel like it gives all vegetarians a...1999 March 26, Jessica R. Shawl, “‘Vegetarians’???”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), message-ID <36FBD2DB.8237C15@scdt.intel.com>

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Forms of piscetarian

pluralpiscetarians

Origin of piscetarian

From Latin pisces (“fish”), by analogy with vegetarian.

Questions about piscetarian

What is piscetarian the alternative spelling of?
Piscetarian is the alternative spelling of pescetarian.

Words near piscetarian in the dictionary

  1. piscatory rings
  2. piscatrix
  3. Piscean
  4. Pisceans
  5. Pisces
  6. piscetarian
  7. piscetarians
  8. Pischke
  9. Pischkes
  10. pisci-
  11. piscicapture

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