carnivore

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   any animal that feeds on flesh

   Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore.

2. 2
   noun

   a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

   Terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.

Common collocations

• large carnivore Adjective + noun

Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.

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