ichthyophage

Meaning

Noun

  • That which consumes fish; any fish-eating thing or (more rarely) person.

Origin

  • From the Ancient Greek ἰχθυοφάγος ("fish-eating"), and substantivised as a plurale tantum proper noun: “the Fish-eaters, the Ichthyophagi”; reinforced in the general sense (“that which consumes fish”) by the English ichthyo- + -phage.

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