VEGETARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetarian mean? 

• VEGETARIAN (noun)
  The noun VEGETARIAN has 1 sense:

1. eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products

  Familiarity information: VEGETARIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETARIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("vegetarian" is a kind of...):

eater; feeder (someone who consumes food for nourishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetarian"):

vegan (a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products at all)

 Context examples 

Some, like a vegetarian diet, don't include meats.

(Diets, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It is a vegetarian diet that includes eating organic fruits and vegetables and 13 glasses of fresh juice each day.

(Gerson therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Helpless, torpid, and vegetarian, with great limbs but a minute brain, they could be rounded up and driven by a child.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As an Aquarius, you tend to like vegetarian or light fare, so look to see if you can find a special-occasion restaurant with a menu that’s plant based and where the menu items are prepared in a new way by a highly creative master chef.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Feet from the raw bars and seashell-colored condominiums of Florida's Cedar Key, NSF-supported researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and California State University discovered a new species of sea slug that is a rare outlier in a group famous for being ultra-vegetarians.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)

Just say the word,—teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)