单词 | ichthyophagous |
释义 | ichthyophagousadj. Fish-eating; that feeds on fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh > eating fish fish-fed1614 piscivorous1661 ichthyophagous1828 fish-eating1835 fish-feeding1835 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 101/2 A few are Ichthyophagous, and use Salted Herrings. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xxiv. 455 The icthyophagous nations, that dwelt on the Persian Gulf and the shores of the Red Sea. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1018 Transferred in raw, smoked or imperfectly cured and cooked fish to the intestine of man, dog, cat or other ichthyophagous animal. Derivatives ichthyˈophagously adv. in reference to ichthyophagy. ΚΠ 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics Advt. The Author's purport..is, to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish science, but fish tattle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1828 |
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