carnivorous
Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
Other meanings
Flesh-eating; predatorily so: that is, predatory.
Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
Related words
- anticarnivorous
- carnivorously
- carnivorousness
- hypercarnivorous
- hypocarnivorous
- macrocarnivorous
- mesocarnivorous
- noncarnivorous
- protocarnivorous
- uncarnivorous
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This definition is adapted from “carnivorous” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.