vegetarian

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.

   • "The sight and smell of raw meat are especially odious to me, and I have often thought that if I had had to be my own cook, I should inevitably become a vegetarian, probably, indeed, return entirely to my green and salad days."
   • Vegetarian Society […] A society […] formed at Manchester in 1847, to promote the use of cereals, pulse, and fruit, as articles of diet; and to induce habits of abstinence from fish, flesh, and fowl, as food.
2. 2

   An animal that eats only plants

   An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

3. 3

   Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

   • Must we not put to death blackbirds and thrushes because they feed on worms, or (if capital punishment offends our humanitarianism) starve them slowly by permanent captivity and vegetarian diet?
   • According to interviews by New York Times correspondents across the country, more and more people—especially the young—are giving up “flesh foods” in favor of a vegetarian way of life.
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   1. 4

      Without meat.

   2. 5

      Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.

      • Is there such a thing as a good tasting vegetarian hot dog? Cuz every one I've tried tasted like smelted tire.
   3. 6

      That does not eat meat.

      • I have a vegetarian brother
   4. 7

      Obsolete spelling of vegetarian.

      • “I must preface this essay by the confession that I am myself a Vegetarian, and that I mean to say all the good I can of the principles of Vegetarianism.”

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