noun
(also pescetarian)
A person who does not eat meat but does eat fish.
‘no red meat, my family are pescatarians’- ‘he adheres to a mostly pescatarian diet’
- ‘Instead, pescatarians, those who eat seafood as well as vegetables, and ovolacto-vegetarians, those who eat both eggs and dairy, are increasing.’
Origin
1990s from Italian pesce ‘fish’, on the pattern of vegetarian.
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