vegetarian

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who does not eat meat or fish.

   My sister became a vegetarian when she was sixteen.

2. 2
   adj

   Not containing meat or fish, or eating no meat or fish.

   The cafe has a good range of vegetarian meals.

From vegetable + -arian; popularized following 1847 foundation of British Vegetarian Society. (Alternatively, it may derive from vegetus + -arian.)

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