About The Word Carnivorous
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Carnivorous
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What's The Definition Of Carnivorous?
[adj] (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"
[adj] relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals" Synonyms | Synonyms for Carnivorous: flesh-eating(a) | meat-eating(a) | piscivorous | predaceous | predacious | zoophagous Related Terms | Find terms related to Carnivorous: cannibal | cannibalistic | commensal | dietetic | dining | eating | feeding | flesh-eating | fruitarian | gastronomic | gluttonous | grain-eating | graminivorous | granivorous | grass-eating | herbivorous | insect-eating | insectivorous | lactovegetarian | man-eating | meat-eating | mensal | nourishing | nutritious | omnivorous | omophagous | pantophagous | phytivorous | phytophagous | plant-eating | postprandial | prandial | predacious | preprandial | vegetable-eating | vegetarian See Also | Carnivorous In Webster's Dictionary \Car*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis,
flesh + varare to devour.]
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.
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