carnivore

Noun
  1. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (synset 102077948)
    "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb"
    is a type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    subtypes:
    • fissiped, fissiped mammal - terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons
    • canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
    • felid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
    • bear - massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
    • viverrine, viverrine mammal - small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World
    • mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal - fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals
    • procyonid - plantigrade carnivorous mammals
    belongs to: carnivora, order carnivora - cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia
  2. Any animal that feeds on flesh (synset 101327072)
    "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores"
    is a type of: predator, predatory animal - any animal that lives by preying on other animals

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