vegetarian

UK /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/ US /vɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
adj 4noun 3

Definitions

noun

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

An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

adj

1

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.

2

Without meat.

3

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.

4

That does not eat meat.

I have a vegetarian brother

noun

1

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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