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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A flesh-eating animal.
  2. n. Any of various predatory, flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, hyenas, and raccoons.
  3. n. One who victimizes or injures others; a predator.
  4. n. An insectivorous plant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A carnivorous animal; one of the Carnivora.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet.
  2. n. taxonomy A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the Carnivora.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any animal that feeds on flesh
  2. n. a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

Etymologies

  1. Ultimately from Latin carnivorus. (Wiktionary)
  2. From French, meat-eating, from Latin carnivorus; see carnivorous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Camera traps, said Lyren, are widely used in carnivore research because they help document the behavior and distribution of these more elusive, often-nocturnal animals … This camera trap is on the former El Toro Marine Base, an area that burned last week in the Orange County Santiago Fire.”

    Images: USGS Cameras Capture Dramatic Wildfire-Wildlife Images « ResourceShelf

  • “New Bornean carnivore' is most likely a little known flying squirrel”

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  • “And the thing that broke my heart wasn’t that she didn’t know the definition of the word carnivore; I could live with that.”

    Simon & Schuster: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

  • “For the owners of the Ivy to worry about people thinking they are just for VIPs is a little like a lion getting upset for being called a carnivore.”

    The Guardian: Restaurant review: 34

  • “At some point, Leaellynasaura, a Lower Cretaceous hypsilophodontid from Victoria, Australia, was described as a carnivore when it, like all hypsilophodontids, is actually an herbivore.”

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  • “St. John is known as a carnivore's paradise -- its signature dish is roast bone marrow, served with a parsley salad -- but Mr. Rowe says the restaurant's insistence on British cuisine has resulted in widespread use of local fruits and vegetables.”

    The Wall Street Journal: How Sustainable Is Your Restaurant?

  • “One of them is an FBI tool called carnivore which some people may have heard of.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001

  • “This may explain why the panda diet is primarily herbivorous even though it is classified as a carnivore," says Wang.”

    Scientific American

  • “Black bears are classified as a carnivore, though most of their diet consists of vegetation, fruits, nuts and roots.”

    Craig Daily Press stories

  • “I also became a ravenous carnivore, which is good, because protein is something to eat a lot of during chemo.”

    Blogging While Feminist

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