1. A 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"

Derived forms: carnivores

See also: carnivorous

Type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, predator, predatory animal

Part of: Carnivora, order Carnivora

Encyclopedia: Carnivore

• monandrous
• monandry
• monarch
• monarch butterfly
• monarchal
• monarchic
• monarchical
• monarchism
• monarchist
• monarchy
• monarda
• Monarda citriodora
• Monarda clinopodia
• Monarda didyma
• Monarda fistulosa
• Monarda pectinata
• Monarda punctata
• Monardella
• Monardella lanceolata
• Monario
• monas
• monastery
• monastic
• monastic habit
• monastic order