Pescatarian (noun)Pronunciation
pess-kuh-TAIR-ee-un
Definition
One whose diet includes fish, but no meat
Example Sentence:
Never crazy about the taste of meat, Hannah decided she would supplement her all-veggie diet with seafood, and thus her pescatarian lifestyle was born.
Did you know?
Whether for health, morals, or trendiness, more and more people are choosing to forego meat and animal by-products. As a result, new words are popping up regularly to describe our ever-changing diets.
Merriam-Webster explains:
“The word ‘vegetarian’ sprouted up in 1839. ‘Fruitarian’ (‘a person who lives on fruit’) ripened by 1893. In 1944, vegetarians who consume no animal or dairy products began calling themselves ‘vegans.’ Then, in 1993, those who eat fish but no other meat chose ‘pesce,’ the Italian word for ‘fish,’ to create the designation ‘pescatarian.’
“In that same year, ‘meatatarian’ was served up as a word for those whose diet largely includes meat; that word is rare, however, and is usually used in informal and humorous ways, making it the type of fare not included in our dictionaries.
“Another fairly recent dietary word that we will be chewing over when we next update our dictionary is ‘flexitarian,’ a person who follows a mostly vegetarian diet but occasionally eats meat or fish.”
Definitition and pronunciation taken from Merriam-Webster online dictionary.
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