Definition of "piscivorous" []

• Habitually feeding on fish; fish-eating. (adjective)

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• "Climate change causes contrasting trends in reproductive performance of planktivorous and piscivorous alcids."
• "Some piscivorous species also consume crustaceans, mollusks, and marine worms, while some planktivorous species occasionally eat fish."
• "Lake trout were apparently illegally stocked in Yellowstone Lake some time before 1994 and threaten the native cutthroat trout and piscivorous species and ecosystem that depend on them - grizzly bears, bald eagles and several other species of mammals and birds."