Pescetarian

Alternative forms

• pescatarian
• piscetarian

Origin

From Italian pesce ("fish") + -arian, by analogy with vegetarian.

Full definition of pescetarian

Noun

1. A person who consumes no animal flesh with the exception of fish or seafood.
• 1999, Jessica R. Shawl, '"Vegetarians"???', rec.food.veg, Usenet:I'm curious what you do when you encounter a friend, family member, whoever who claims to be a "vegetarian who eats fish". It *really* bothers me when this happens because it contributes to the assumption that I eat fish and I don't, because I am a vegetarian. I feel like it gives all vegetarians a bad name.Do you correct them? Do you not bother? And how do you correct them? I was thinking that saying something like "oh, you mean your a pescetarian" would be ok and give them the appropriate term. Speaking of which, how is "pescetarian" pronounced?
• 2005, Kirsten Hartvig, Pierre Jean Cousin, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Health: More Than 600 Foods and Recipes for Overcoming Illness and Boosting your Immunity, page 149:Eat for Immunity follows a plant-based approach to improving immunity that is relevant to every style of eating—carnivore, pescetarian, vegetarian and vegan.
• 2006, Ayun Halliday, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste, page 151:"Why don't you just tell people you're a pescetarian?" a vegetarian I met recently asked, cutting me off midapologia for my beat-up leather jacket and my callow habit of behaving as if fish are neurologically no more complex than eggplants.

Synonyms

• piscivore scientific

Related terms

• meatatarian
• vegetarian