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carnivorous

car·niv·o·rous [ kaar nívvərəss ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. meat-eating: feeding mainly on the flesh of other animals

2. able to digest animals as food: able to catch and digest animals such as insects and small invertebrates
a carnivorous plant

[Late 16th century. < Latin carnivorus "meat-eating" < carn- "flesh"]

car·niv·o·rous·ly adverb
car·niv·o·rous·ness noun
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