fish-eating

American  

[fish-ee-ting] / ˈfɪʃˌi tɪŋ /

adjective

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

---

Example Sentences

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

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

For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them -- a perplexing behavior that has long intrigued scientists.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

Some fish-eating, deep-diving birds like murres, puffins and endangered marbled murrelets, as well as tubenose birds like albatross and shearwaters, suffered much more than others.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

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

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson