carnivore
n.
meat-eater; meat eating mammals
Carnivore
A carnivore , meaning 'meat eater' (
Latin carne meaning 'flesh' and vorare meaning 'to devour'), is an
animal with a
diet consisting mainly of
meat, whether it comes from animals living or dead (
scavenging). Some animals are considered carnivores even if their diets contain very little meat but involve preying on other animals (e.g., predatory
arthropods such as
spiders or
mantids that may rarely consume small vertebrate prey). Animals that subsist on a diet consisting only of meat are referred to as obligate carnivores. Plants that capture and digest insects are called
carnivorous plants. Similarly fungi that capture microscopic animals are often called
carnivorous fungi. The designation "hypercarnivore" is used in
paleobiology to describe
taxa of animals which have an increased slicing component of their
dentition relative to the grinding component.
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carnivore
Noun
1. terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb
(hypernym) placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
(hyponym) fissiped mammal, fissiped
(member-holonym) Carnivora, order Carnivora
2. any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"
(hypernym) predator, predatory animal
carnivore
adj.
carnivorous, meat-eating
carnivore (m)
n.
carnivore, meat-eater; meat eating mammals
carnivoro
adj.
carnivorous, meat-eating
carnivoro (m)
n.
carnivore, meat-eater