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What is another word for vegetarians?

Pronunciation: [vˌɛd͡ʒɪtˈe͡əɹi͡ənz] (IPA)

Vegetarians are individuals who abstain from consuming meat products. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe them such as herbivores, plant-based eaters, vegans, and non-meat eaters. Herbivores specifically refer to animals that only consume plant-based foods, while plant-based eaters and non-meat eaters describe individuals who focus on consuming fruits, vegetables, and grains. On the other hand, vegans take their diet one step further by not consuming any animal products including dairy and eggs. All these terms can be used interchangeably to refer to individuals who have made a conscious decision to follow a meatless diet either for ethical, environmental or health reasons.
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What are the hypernyms for Vegetarians?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    omnivores, flexitarians, Non-meat eaters, Pescatarians, Plant-based dieters.

Usage examples for Vegetarians

Oh, you benighted vegetarians!
"The History of Peru"
Henry S. Beebe
vegetarians may reduce their theories to practice in the cities and among cultivated fields, but vegetarians among the red men of the Far West or the squat men of the Arctic zone, would either have to violate their principles or die.
"The Prairie Chief"
R.M. Ballantyne
The bulk of my readers and the majority of anti-vivisectionists are not vegetarians; and it is only an innocent pastime to build up new civilisations in the fantastic realms of Utopia.
"The Pros and Cons of Vivisection"
Charles Richet Commentator: W. D. Halliburton

Famous quotes with Vegetarians

  • The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
    Steve Albini
  • We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
    Dirk Benedict
  • And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
    Warren Cuccurullo
  • I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.
    Morarji Desai
  • Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
    Finley Peter Dunne

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