Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, bears, weasels, raccoons, and seals, most of which are predatory flesh-eating animals.
- noun Any of various other flesh-eating animals.
- noun An insectivorous plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carnivorous animal; one of the Carnivora.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Carnivora.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
animal that eatsmeat as the main part of itsdiet . - noun taxonomy A
mammal belonging to the orderCarnivora .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any animal that feeds on flesh
- noun a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 2007
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'New Bornean carnivore' is most likely a little known flying squirrel
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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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.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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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.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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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.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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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.
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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.
Entry #1,909 greygirlbeast 2008
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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.
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One of them is an FBI tool called carnivore which some people may have heard of.
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"This may explain why the panda diet is primarily herbivorous even though it is classified as a carnivore," says Wang.
Scientific American 2009
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