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Eating or subsisting on fish.

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Usage examples (8)
  • If, on its coasts, the sea washes nothing but almost inaccessible rocks, let it remain barbarous and ichthyophagous: it will have a quieter, perhaps a better, and...
  • On the sea shore, and the banks of rivers, they invented the line and the hook, and became fishermen and ichthyophagous.
  • Pliny and Diodorus Siculus have described the fish-bread of the ichthyophagous nations, that dwelt on the Persian Gulf and the shores of the Red Sea.
  • FROM ROME TO GAUL is, considering the means of modern locomotion, no great way; but the ancient sumptuary laws of that kingdom give us little information regarding the...
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