hippophagi

English

Etymology

From the plural of New Latin hippophagus. See hippophagous.

Noun

hippophagi pl (plural only)

1. Eaters of horseflesh.
   • 1847, James Madison Cutts, The Conquest of California and New Mexico:

     the unsavory subsistence of those hippophagi of the Sierra Nevada

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hippophagi”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)