carnivore

n. meat-eater; meat eating mammals

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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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

adj. carnivorous, meat-eating

n. carnivore, meat-eater; meat eating mammals

adj. carnivorous, meat-eating

n. carnivore, meat-eater