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Definitions for: Carnivorous [adj] (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"
[adj] relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals"
Webster (1913) Definition: Car*niv"o*rous, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis,
flesh + varare to devour.]
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied:
(a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the
tiger, dog, etc.;
(b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food;
(c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Synonyms: flesh-eating(a), meat-eating(a), piscivorous, predaceous, predacious, zoophagous
Antonyms: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous
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