carnivorous
adj.
meat-eating, feeding on animal flesh
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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carnivorous
Adjective
1. relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals"
(pertainym) carnivore
2. (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"
(antonym) herbivorous
(similar) flesh-eating(a), meat-eating(a), zoophagous
(classification) plant, flora, plant life
Carnivorous
(a.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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adj.
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All that have serrate teeth are carnivorous. (Ray.)
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