Vegetarian

Noun

 * 1) A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, animal products.
 * 2) * 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1897, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 4, page 5045:
 * vegetarian [...] One who abstains from animal food, living exclusively on vegetables, milk, eggs, and the like. The more strict vegetarians eat vegetables and farinaceous food only, abstaining from eggs, butter, milk, and in some cases, honey.
 * 1) An animal that eats only plants; a herbivore.

Synonyms

 * herbivore

Coordinate terms

 * omnivore
 * carnivore
 * meatarian, meatatarian

Hyponyms

 * vegan; lactovegetarian, lactarian; lacto-ovo-vegetarian, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, ovolactovegetarian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to the type of diet eaten by vegetarians (in all senses).

Thesaurus
Apostolic, Apostolici, Brillat-Savarin, Encratic, Encratite, Lenten, Lucullus, Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, banian, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, botanic, bulbous, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivore, carnivorous, celibate, cereal, chaste, commensal, connoisseur of food, consumer, continent, dietetic, diner, diner-out, dining, eater, eater-out, eating, epicure, farinaceous, feeder, feeding, flesh-eater, flesh-eating, fruitarian, fruitlike, fruity, gastronome, gastronomic, glutton, gluttonous, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, grain-eating, graminivore, graminivorous, granivore, granivorous, grass-eating, gymnosophist, herbaceous, herbal, herbivore, herbivorous, herbose, herbous, herby, high liver, hungry mouth, hydropot, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, leguminose, leguminous, luncher, man-eater, man-eating, meat-eater, meat-eating, mensal, mouth, nephalist, nephalistic, nourishing, nutritious, omnivore, omnivorous, omophagist, omophagous, on the wagon, pantophagist, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophage, phytophagous, picnicker, plant-eater, plant-eating, plantlike, postprandial, prandial, predacean, predacious, preprandial, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, sexually abstinent, sworn off, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalist, trencherman, tuberous, vegetable, vegetable-eating, vegetal, vegetational, vegetative, water-drinker, weedy

Etymology

 * popularized following 1847 foundation of British.

Noun

 * Arabic: نباتي
 * Catalan: vegetarià, vegetariana
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 素食主義者, 素食主义者, 素食者, 吃素的人
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 菜食主義者, ベジタリアン


 * Korean:
 * Limburgish: greunsaeter, gruuensaeter
 * Macedonian: вегетаријанец, вегетаријанка
 * Norwegian: vegetarianer
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: vegetariană,
 * Russian:, вегетарианка
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil-sheachnair, glasraichear , lusair
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: vejetaryen (often misspelt as vejeteryan), etyemez (very rare)
 * Volapük: härbatiman,  hihärbatiman,  jihärbatiman
 * Welsh: llysieuwr, llysieuwraig
 * Yiddish: וועגעטאַריער


 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: planteæder
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: φυτοφάγο
 * Hungarian: növényevő


 * Japanese: 草食
 * Macedonian: тревопасно
 * Polish: roślinożerca
 * Romanian: ierbivor
 * Russian: травоядное
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Turkish: otçul
 * Volapük: planifidaf,  planihifidaf,  planijifidaf

Adjective

 * Catalan: vegetarià
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kasvis-
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: χορτοφαγικός
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 菜食主義の person, 草食の animal = herbivorous


 * Korean: 채식주의의 pertaining to vegetarianism
 * Macedonian:, вегетаријанска, вегетаријанско
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: vegetarial
 * Russian: вегетарианский
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: härbatimik

Derived terms

 * vegetarianism

Noun

 * 1) A vegetarian.