Meaning of CARNIVOROUS
| Pronunciation: | | kâr'nivurus
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- [adj] (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"
- [adj] relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals"
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| | Synonyms: | | flesh-eating(a), meat-eating(a), piscivorous, predaceous, predacious, zoophagous |
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| | Antonyms: | | herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Car*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis,
flesh + varare to devour.]
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied:
(a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the
tiger, dog, etc.;
(b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food;
(c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
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| | Related Terms: | | cannibal, cannibalistic, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian |
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