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.

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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