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car·ni·vore

(kär′nə-vôr′)

1. Any of various mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, raccoons, and seals, most of which are predatory flesh-eating animals.

2. Any of various other flesh-eating animals.

3. An insectivorous plant.

[From French, meat-eating, from Latin carnivorus; see carnivorous.]

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carnivore

(ˈkɑːnɪˌvɔː)

1. (Animals) any placental mammal of the order Carnivora, typically having large pointed canine teeth and sharp molars and premolars, specialized for eating flesh. The order includes cats, dogs, bears, raccoons, hyenas, civets, and weasels

2. (Biology) any other animal or any plant that feeds on animals

3. informal an aggressively ambitious person

[C19: probably back formation from carnivorous]

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car•ni•vore

(ˈkɑr nəˌvɔr, -ˌvoʊr)

n.

1. an animal that eats flesh.

2. a flesh-eating mammal of the order Carnivora, comprising the dogs, cats, bears, seals, and weasels.

3. an insectivorous plant.

[1850–55; < Latin carnivorus carnivorous]

car•niv′o•ral (-ˈnɪv ər əl) adj.

car·ni·vore

(kär′nə-vôr′)

a. An animal that feeds chiefly on the flesh of other animals. Carnivores include predators such as lions and alligators, and scavengers such as hyenas and vultures. Compare herbivore.

b. Any of a taxonomic order of mammals of this kind, generally having large, sharp canine teeth. Dogs, cats, bears, and weasels all belong to this order.

2. A plant that eats insects, such as a Venus flytrap.

carnivorous adjective

The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

carnivore

a meat-eating animal. Cf. herbivore. — camivorous, adj.

carnivore

A meat-eating organism.

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Noun	1.	carnivore - a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb" eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials Carnivora, order Carnivora - cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia fissiped, fissiped mammal - terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles felid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws bear - massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws viverrine, viverrine mammal - small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal - fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals procyonid - plantigrade carnivorous mammals
	2.	carnivore - any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores" predatory animal, predator - any animal that lives by preying on other animals

carnivore

Carnivores

aardwolf, arctic fox, badger, bear, binturong, black bear, bobcat, brown bear, cacomistle or cacomixle, caracal or desert lynx, cat see breeds of cat, breeds of dog catamount, catamountain, or cat-o'-mountain, cheetah or chetah, cinnamon bear, civet, corsac, coyote or prairie wolf, dhole, dingo or (Austral.) native dog, dog, ermine, fennec, ferret, fox, genet or genette, giant panda, grey fox (U.S.), grey wolf or timber wolf, grison, grizzly bear or grizzly, hog badger, hognosed skunk, hyena or hyaena, ichneumon, jackal, jaguar, jaguarondi or jaguarundi, kinkajou, honey bear, or potto, Kodiak bear, kolinsky, laughing hyena or spotted hyena, leopard or panther, linsang, lion, lynx, margay, marten, meerkat, mink, mongoose, mountain lion, ocelot, otter, otter shrew, palm civet, panda, panther, pine marten or sweet marten, polar bear or (N. Canad.) nanook, polecat, prairie dog, puma or cougar, raccoon, racoon, or coon, raccoon dog, rasse, ratel, red fox, rooikat, sable, sea otter, serval, silver fox, skunk, sloth bear, snow leopard or ounce, stoat, stone marten, strandwolf, sun bear, swift fox or kit fox, tayra, teledu, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, weasel, wolf, wolverine, glutton, or carcajou, zibeline, zibet, zorilla or zorille

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Translations

لاحم: يعتاش لاحِم: يَعْتاشُ على اللحوم

masožravec

kødæder

Fleischfresser

κρεατοφάγος σαρκοφάγος

carnívoro carnívora

lihansyöjä

carnassier carnivore

húsevő

kjötætakjötæta; rándÿr

carnivoro

carnivora

mėsėdismėsėdis gyvūnas

gaļēdājs dzīvnieks

carnivoor vleeseter

carnivora

mäsožravec

et yiyenetobur

食肉动物

carnivore

[ˈkɑːnɪvɔːʳ] N

1. (Zool) → carnívoro/a m/f

2. (hum) (= non-vegetarian) → carnívoro/a m/f, no vegetariano/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

carnivore

[ˈkɑː^rnɪvɔː^r] n

(= animal) → carnivore m

(= person who eats meat) → carnivore mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

carnivore

n pl <carnivora> (= animal) → Fleischfresser m; (= plant) → fleischfressende Pflanze

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

carnivore

[ˈkɑːnɪvɔːʳ] n → carnivoro

carnivore

(ˈkaːnivoː) noun

a flesh-eating animal. The lion is a carnivore.

carˈnivorous adjective

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In the ape-man's right hand was the long hunting knife of his father and in his heart the blood lust of the carnivore. Just for an instant he poised above the unsuspecting Bara and then he launched himself downward upon the sleek back.

Always Tarzan watched him, guessing what was passing in the little brain of the carnivore and well it was that he did watch him, for at last Numa could stand it no longer.

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He saw the strong, brown arms encircling the body of the carnivore, the left arm in front of the beast's left shoulder and the right arm behind his right foreleg, and with the impact the two together rolling over and over upon the turf.

Several times she attempted to press the point home into the cat's body, but on both occasions the fear of endangering the ape-man caused her to desist, but at last the two lay motionless for a moment as the carnivore sought a moment's rest from the strenuous exertions of battle, and then it was that Bertha Kircher pressed the point of the spear to the tawny side and drove it deep into the savage heart.

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"Some carnivore of yours has remembered its old habits," I said after a pause.

"Of course," said Montgomery; "it's just the way with carnivores. After a kill, they drink.

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A stout branch deflected the raking talons of the carnivore, but so close was the call that a giant forearm brushed her flesh in the instant before she scrambled to the higher branches.

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They had passed but a short distance to the rear of Numa when the boy caught the unpleasant odor of the carnivore. His face lighted with a smile.

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This hungry carnivore, keen always for the flesh of man, might even now be trailing the two whom Carthoris sought.

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Larger than a polar bear, with a skull as large as that of a rhinoceros and enormous piercing canine teeth, this massive carnivore would have been an intimidating part of the eastern African ecosystems occupied by early apes and monkeys.

Fossils Found in Museum Drawer: Huge Carnivore

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