ichthyophagous

British  

/ ˌɪkθɪˈɒfədʒɪ, ˌɪkθɪˈɒfəɡəs /

adjective

1. feeding on fish

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Other Word Forms

• ichthyophagy noun

Example Sentences

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 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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 Lang, Andrew

Pliny and Diodorus Siculus have described the fish-bread of the ichthyophagous nations, that dwelt on the Persian Gulf and the shores of the Red Sea.*

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

Then the latter, who had been talking illuminatingly about Spain, rose, bowed, and left the table, leaving Dickson, who liked to linger over his meals, to the society of the ichthyophagous student.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John