vegan
/ˈviːɡ(ə)n
/noun
A person who does not eat or use animal products: [as modifier]: a vegan diet...
- Unlike ovo-lacto vegetarians, vegans have eliminated all animal products from their diets.
- Since cholesterol is found only in animal products such as meat, dairy products and eggs, vegans consume a cholesterol-free diet.
- Mothers who use soya-based formulas are in most cases strict vegetarians or vegans avoiding baby foods made with cow's milk.
Derivatives
veganism
/ noun ...- Strict veganism is potentially hazardous for young children, and vegan children tend to be smaller.
- Chappell recommends veganism for everyone from athletes to businessmen and attributes his own good health to his vegan diet.
- I did consider veganism at one point, but thought it too extreme to fit into a modern lifestyle.
Origin
1940s: from vegetarian + -an.
Rhymes
- peripheralisation
- peripheralise
- peripheralism
- peripheralist
- peripherality
- peripheralization
- peripheralize
- peripherally
- peripheral nerve
- peripheral nervous system
- in the middle of
- in the name of
- in the nature of
- in the nature of things
- in the neighbourhood of
- in the nick of time
- in the nip
- in the nude
- in the offing
- in the ordinary way
- in the (or in no) mood for/to do something
- in the (or one's) road
- in the (or one's) way
- in theory
- in the pay of