Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eaters of horseflesh; specifically, a name given by Ptolemy to certain nomads, Scythians in central Asia and Sarmatians northeast of the Caspian sea, who fed on horse-flesh.

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

  • noun plural Eaters of horseflesh.

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  • noun Eaters of horseflesh.

Etymologies

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New Latin. See hippophagous.

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