Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting mainly of vegetables and foods made from cereal grains, with occasional inclusion of fish, chicken, or red meat.
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- adjective of a person Being a semivegetarian (in either sense).
- adjective of food Fit for a semivegetarian to eat; that is, not containing certain kinds of
flesh . - noun One who does not eat certain kinds of
flesh (oftenred meat ). - noun One who does not eat very much flesh.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999
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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.
Moon Dance Mariah Stewart 1999
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he added, knowing full well that Georgia was what she termed a semivegetarian—eggs, dairy, occasionally even fish, but never meat.
Wounderful You Mariah Stewart 1998
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he added, knowing full well that Georgia was what she termed a semivegetarian—eggs, dairy, occasionally even fish, but never meat.
Wounderful You Mariah Stewart 1998
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Up until New Year’s Day, 1989, I believed that if you were a nonsmoking, semivegetarian athlete, you were bulletproof from chronic disease.
The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006
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Up until New Year’s Day, 1989, I believed that if you were a nonsmoking, semivegetarian athlete, you were bulletproof from chronic disease.
The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006
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Up until New Year’s Day, 1989, I believed that if you were a nonsmoking, semivegetarian athlete, you were bulletproof from chronic disease.
The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006
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