carnivorous
Adjective
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Relating to or characteristic of carnivores (synset 302691317)
"the lion and other carnivorous animals"
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(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals (synset 300314284)
"carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"referred to in: flora, plant, plant life - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotionsimilar to:
- flesh-eating, meat-eating, zoophagous - (of animals) carnivorous
- piscivorous - feeding on fishes
- predaceous, predacious - hunting and killing other animals for food
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