Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The practice of eating fish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The practice of eating, or living upon, fish.

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  • noun archaic The practice of eating fish.

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  • The practice of eating or subsisting on fish.

    July 17, 2008

  • Ecologists warn us that fish

    Are not a sustainable dish.

    Enlightened philosophy

    Eschews ichthyophagy,

    Or so would the scientists wish.

    June 9, 2017