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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Consisting mainly of vegetables and foods made from cereal grains, with occasional inclusion of fish, chicken, or red meat: a semivegetarian diet.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a person Being a semivegetarian (in either sense).
  2. adj. of food Fit for a semivegetarian to eat; that is, not containing certain kinds of flesh.
  3. n. One who does not eat certain kinds of flesh (often red meat).
  4. n. One who does not eat very much flesh.

Etymologies

  1. From semi- +‎ vegetarian. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I have some lovely ham, he added, a tease in his voice, knowing full well that Georgia was what she termed semivegetarian—eggs, dairy, on rare occasions perhaps fish, but never meat.”

    Simon & Schuster: Moon Dance

  • “he added, knowing full well that Georgia was what she termed a semivegetarian—eggs, dairy, occasionally even fish, but never meat.”

    Simon & Schuster: Wounderful You

  • “Up until New Year’s Day, 1989, I believed that if you were a nonsmoking, semivegetarian athlete, you were bulletproof from chronic disease.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Rice Diet Solution

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