fish-eating
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British Columbia to Monterey.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025
Often working as a team, these fish-eating orcas push porpoises with their snouts, hold them in their mouths, and carry them above the water.
From National Geographic • Oct. 30, 2023
That means that kingfishers evolved their fishy diets -- and the diving abilities to procure them -- a number of separate times, rather than all evolving from one common fish-eating ancestor.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023
Most of them were fish-eating species — herons, pelicans, grebes, gulls.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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