carnivore

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This is the top carnivore, the T-Rex of its time.

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  1. noun A flesh-eating animal.
  2. noun Any of various predatory, flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, hyenas, and raccoons.
  3. noun One who victimizes or injures others; a predator.
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  • This is the top carnivore, the T-Rex of its time. —  Peter Ward on mass extinctions
  • The carnivore was as big and nearly as intelligent as the tribesman himself. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • Being a carnivore is necessarily brutal and it's not right for those of us who live 15 minutes from a Kroger or Whole Foods to pass judgment on the survival strategies of people in rural Alaska. —  Rule .303
  • The little amoeboid critter can be an herbivore or a carnivore, and it evolves by collecting enough DNA points and (this is highly amusing, in a Discworld way) new parts. —  The Edge of the American West
  • The little dude up above started off life as a carnivore, but then he ended up at one point being surrounded by bigger critters that he couldn't eat, and lots of plants, and I'd happened to find an omnivore mouth. —  The Edge of the American West
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  1. From French, meat-eating, from Latin carnivorus; see carnivorous.

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  1. = French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus: see carnivorous.
 

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/ˈkɑrnɪvoʊr/
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