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carnin |
carniolan bee |
carnival |
carnivora |
carnivoracity |
carnivore
| carnivorous
| carnivorous bat
| carnivorous plant
| carnosaur
| carnosaura
carnivore
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun carnivore has 2 senses
- carnivore(n = noun.animal) Array - a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb" is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
- carnivore(n = noun.animal) Array - any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores" is a kind of predator, predatory animal
is a member of carnivora, order carnivora
has particulars: fissiped, fissiped mammal, canid, canine, felid, feline, bear, viverrine, viverrine mammal, mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal, procyonid
OXFORD DICTIONARY
carnivore, n.
1 a any mammal of the order Carnivora, with powerful jaws and teeth adapted for stabbing, tearing, and eating flesh, including cats, dogs, and bears. b any other flesh-eating mammal.
2 any flesh-eating plant.
1 a any mammal of the order Carnivora, with powerful jaws and teeth adapted for stabbing, tearing, and eating flesh, including cats, dogs, and bears. b any other flesh-eating mammal.
2 any flesh-eating plant.
THESAURUS
carnivore
Brillat-Savarin, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, Lucullus, Primates, Rodentia, amphibian, aquatic, biped, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, canine, cannibal, connoisseur of food, consumer, cosmopolite, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, feline, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gnawer, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, insectivore, invertebrate, lactovegetarian, luncher, mammal, mammalian, man-eater, marsupial, marsupialian, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, trencherman, ungulate, varmint, vegetarian, vermin, vertebrate
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