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adj. Of or relating to carnivores.

adj. Flesh-eating or predatory: a carnivorous bird.

adj. Characterized by destructive or predatory behavior or instincts: "a city becoming increasingly carnivorous as it becomes decreasingly serious about governance” ( George F. Will).

adj. Botany Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them; insectivorous.

adj. Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Canivora.

adj. Predatory or flesh eating.

adj. Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.

adj. 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.

Eating or feeding on flesh; subsisting upon animal food: applied to animals which naturally seek animal food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, etc.; also to plants which feed upon insects, as the Drosera or sundew, the Pinguicula, the Dionæa or Venus's flytrap, and the various pitcher-bearing plants.

Specifically— In mammalogy, of or pertaining to the Carnivora; carnivoral; carnassial. In entomology, of or pertaining to the Carnivora; adephagous; predatory.

In odontography, trenchant; sectorial; carnassial: as, a carnivorous molar or premolar.

adj. relating to or characteristic of carnivores

adj. (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals

"As recently as the 1990s, Barnes & Noble was known as a carnivorous competitor with the power to wipe out independent bookstores with its steeply discounted books and sprawling stores where customers could sip coffee and read in plush chairs."

flesh-eating    predaceous    predacious    piscivorous    zoophagous    meat-eating   

flesh-eating    sarcophagous    zoophagous    equivorous    ichthyophagous    omophagous    necrophagous    predaceous    cannibal   

herbivorous    insectivorous    omnivorous   

aquatic    voracious    herbivorous    insectivorous    predatory    extinct    mutant    prehistoric    flesh-eating    nocturnal