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fish-eating

American  
[fish-ee-ting] / ˈfɪʃˌi tɪŋ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to someone or something that habitually or exclusively consumes fish; piscivorous.


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Add to this the perception, used effectively by Ms. Banerjee five years ago, that the BJP was the party of landlocked Hindi-speaking North Indian vegetarians alien to the fish-eating Bengalis of the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Pitman, who has studied killer whales in Antarctica for over 10 years, said there’s a similar divide between mammal- and fish-eating killer whales in those waters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

Often working as a team, these fish-eating orcas push porpoises with their snouts, hold them in their mouths, and carry them above the water.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 30, 2023

Most of them were fish-eating species — herons, pelicans, grebes, gulls.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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