ichthyophagous
Britishadjective
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In ichthyophagous Japan, good fishing techniques are a matter of national importance.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the sea shore, and the banks of rivers, they invented the line and the hook, and became fishermen and ichthyophagous.
From A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The inhabitant of cold and sterile regions on the borders of the ocean becomes ichthyophagous; and fish, fresh, dried, smoked, or salted, is his principal nourishment.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
This description remains accurate for most of the unsophisticated Australian tribes, but Dampier appears only to have seen ichthyophagous coast blacks.
From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang
The population was evidently ichthyophagous, to judge by the vast accumulations of shells of scallops, oysters, limpets, pectens, and other mollusca.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
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