piscivorous

1. 1.

   feeding on fishes

   Similarcarnivorous

Questions about piscivorous

What does piscivorous mean?

piscivorous means "feeding on fishes".

How many syllables are in piscivorous?

piscivorous has 4 syllables: pi-sci-vo-rous. The stress falls on "sci".

Is piscivorous a common word?

piscivorous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.