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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carnivore
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mammalian
▪ This analysis was applied to a series of mammalian carnivores, with considerable differences emerging between them.
▪ The digestion of incisors from mammalian carnivore prey assemblages is more extreme than that of the molars.
▪ The mammalian carnivores are also of some antiquity.
▪ Fig. 3.4 Skeletal element proportions of bone assemblages from diurnal raptors and mammalian carnivores, as for Fig. 3.2.
▪ Fourthly, the mammalian carnivores are all alike in producing assemblages with no complete skulls at all.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A first distinction is between herbivores and carnivores.
▪ For the carnivore, however, the football menu is more than adequate to quell your hunger.
▪ It was like the scent of the carnivore in a zoo.
▪ Stillman was a strict carnivore, allowing his patients to eat only lean meat, poultry, eggs, and low-fat cheeses.
▪ Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
▪ Their stooping posture was of a person melting down, slumping into the stance of a vicious carnivore.
▪ This huge flightless bird has regularly appeared in illustrated fossil books as a giant carnivore.
▪ With certain carnivores, only the dominant male copulates with the females.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carnivore

Carnivore \Car`ni*vore\, n. [Cf. F. carnivore.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Carnivora.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carnivore

"flesh-eating animal," 1839, from French carnivore (16c.), from Latin carnivorus "flesh-eating" (see carnivorous).

Wiktionary
carnivore

n. 1 Any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet. 2 (label en zoology) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora. 3 (context informal English) A person who is not a vegetarian.

WordNet
carnivore
  1. n. terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb

  2. any animal that feeds on flesh; "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"

Wikipedia
Carnivore

A carnivore meaning 'meat eater' ( Latin, caro meaning 'meat' or 'flesh' and vorare meaning 'to devour') is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging. Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are called obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are called facultative carnivores. Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore. A carnivore that sits at the top of the foodchain is termed an apex predator.

Plants that capture and digest insects (and, at times, other small animals) are called carnivorous plants. Similarly, fungi that capture microscopic animals are often called carnivorous fungi.

Carnivore (software)

Carnivore, later renamed DCS1000, was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications. It used a customizable packet sniffer that can monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic. Carnivore was implemented in October 1997. By 2005 it had been replaced with improved commercial software such as NarusInsight.

Carnivore (band)

Carnivore was an American crossover thrash band from Brooklyn, New York founded by singer and bassist Peter Steele, and was formed out of the breakup of the Brooklyn metal group Fallout in 1982.

Carnivore (restaurant)

Carnivore is an open-air restaurant in the Langata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. Carnivore's specialty is meat, and features an all-you-can-eat meat buffet. They serve a wide variety of meat and are famous for their game meat. It is a popular tourist destination.

Carnivore (album)

Carnivore is the debut album by American crossover thrash band of the same name. It was released in 1985 by Roadrunner Records. It was first released on CD in 1990, in original form, and again in 1991, without track 5, but with most of Retaliation.

It was reissued on January 23, 2001, with an addition of three bonus demo tracks (these songs would be officially recorded later to appear on their next album) and with a different album cover.

Carnivore (disambiguation)

A carnivore is an animal with a diet consisting primarily of meat.

The word may also refer to:

  • Carnivora, an order of primarily carnivorous mammals
  • "Carnivorism", otherwise known as a no-carbohydrate diet, a dietary lifestyle that excludes many non-meat foods
  • Carnivore (restaurant), a famous restaurant in Nairobi, Kenya
  • Carnivore (software), a Federal Bureau of Investigation Ethernet tapping system
  • Carnivore (band), a thrash metal band from New York
  • "Carnivore", a 2002 song by horror rock band Rosemary's Billygoat
  • Carnivore, aka Beasts of Prey, a 1985 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young
  • Carnivores (series), a series of games developed by Action Forms

Usage examples of "carnivore".

The 30-foot carnivore named Afrovenator abattensis was related to the fierce predator Allosaurus that had lived 30 million years before in the Jurassic of North America.

Opponents suggested that the marks and breaks observed on the fossil bones were caused by the action of carnivores, sharks, or geological pressure.

It was perhaps the unease of the hotblooded carnivore faced by the cold menace of a venomous snake.

The nonpoisonous noncarnivores declined and, since they constituted the food supply for the carnivores, the numbers and varieties of carnivores declined with them.

Eventually two distinct groups segregated out of all this and from that time on lived separate lives: the nonpoisonous types moved out into the oceans away from the competition, and the carnivores naturally followed them.

Measuring some twenty-five meters long, with jaws alone some three meters long, their sole stratagem to rip and shake their prey apart, the pliosaurs were the largest carnivores in the history of the planet.

Unhappy five-hundred-kilo carnivores were bad news anywhere, and worse than that on a crowded sandspit in the dark with fifteen-thousand-odd men trying to find their unit assembly areas.

They are more plausibly explained by noncultural taphonomic processes, including carnivore breakage, rodent gnawing, trampling, and modification by river ice.

A large, somewhat tigerlike carnivore came out of the cabin in one blur, knocked the Pioneer flat, seized him in its jaws, and sprang behind another cabin.

In this cold galaxy, the commandment of Eat or Be Eaten prevailed, from the throne of Emperor Palpatine all the way down to the smallest carnivore, a Tatooinian womp rat, scuttling across an empty desert.

For generations, reaching back to the red-tinged mindlessness of their ancestors, this species of carnivore had hunted in mating pairs, and so they did now.

The ancestors of the true carnivores, which would eventually include the dogs and cats, were still small, ferretlike animals, busy, opportunistic general feeders.

Here, pangolins from Asia, carnivores from North America, hoofed creatures from Africa, European insectivores like ancestral hedgehogs, and even anteaters from South America mingled and competed.

It may also be added that the rarity of associations larger than that of the family among the carnivores and the birds of prey, though mostly being the result of their very modes of feeding, can also be explained to some extent as a consequence of the change produced in the animal world by the rapid increase of mankind.

Carnivores who live in the ground and eat giant guinea piglike bundas fresh and raw.