vegetarian

Meanings

Noun

• A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products.
• An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Adjective

• Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).
• Without meat.
• Of a product normally made with meat, having non-meat substitutes in place of meat.
• That does not eat meat.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• vegan; lactovegetarian, lactarian; ovovegetarian, eggetarian; lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lactoovovegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, ovolactovegetarian

Origin

• vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society.