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fishetarian
 n.— «“I call them ’fishetarians’” says Hightower.…“They are vegetarians, but they eat a lot of fish.”» —“Power plants are focus of drive to cut mercury” by Larry Wheeler USA Today Oct. 29, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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