carnivore
/ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/US/ˈkɑɹ.nɪ.voɹ/
carnivore noun: an organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
Noun
carnivore (plural carnivores)
- An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
- As juveniles the crocodiles are frequently predated by larger carnivores.
- A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
- The panda and the panther are both carnivores.
- Synonyms:
- carnivoran
- A person who is not a vegetarian.
- Well, she has now gone / From this unhappy planet / With all the carnivores / And the destructors on it1990, Morrissey, “Ouija Board, Ouija Board”, in Bona Drag
- Synonyms:
- meateater, meatarian, meatatarian, kreophagist, nonvegetarian, bloodmouth
- A follower of the carnivore diet.
Proper noun capitalized: Carnivore
Carnivore
- a computer system designed by the FBI to monitor e-mail and electronic communications
carnivore meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
carnivore in Hindi
- meat-eating animal
- मांसाहारी mānsāhārī, माँसाहारी mā̃sāhārī
- person who is not a vegetarian
- मांसाहारी mānsāhārī, माँसाहारी mā̃sāhārī
carnivore in Tamil
- meat-eating animal
- ஊனுண்ணி ūṉuṇṇi
- mammal of the order Carnivora
- ஊனுண்ணி ūṉuṇṇi
carnivore in Marathi
- carnivore
- मांसाहारी māusāhārī
carnivore in Urdu
- carnivore, predator
- درندہ darinda
More languagesFewer languages
- carnivore in Bengali
- মাংসাশী প্রাণী
- carnivore in Telugu
- మాంసాహారి māṁsāhāri
- carnivore in Malayalam
- മാംസഭുക്ക് māṁsabhukkŭ
- carnivore in Tagalog
- lamankain
- carnivore in Arabic
- لَاحِم lāḥim
- carnivore in Malay
- binatang maging, haiwan maging, haiwan karnivor, karnivor
- carnivore in Indonesian
- pemakan daging, karnivor
- carnivore in Persian
- گوشتخوار gušt-xvâr
- carnivore in Thai
- สัตว์กินเนื้อ sàt-gin-nʉ́ʉa
- carnivore in Myanmar
- အသားစား du or c du a.sa:ca:
- Kashmiri
- گوش خۄر gōś khọr
Examples of carnivore in a sentence
- The carnivore diet involves, as the name suggests, eating like a carnivore.
- The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is Africa’s most endangered carnivore, and arguably the world’s most endangered canid.
- "I am not in any way suggesting that zoos ought to veganize carnivores in their care."
Synonyms of carnivore
Forms of carnivore
| plural | carnivores |
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Origin of carnivore
Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.
Words formed from carnivore
- carbivore
- carnivoracity
- carnivore diet
- carnivorism
- carnivorous
- carnivorousness
- carnivory
- facultative carnivore
- flexivore
- hypercarnivore
- hypocarnivore
- macrocarnivore
- megacarnivore
- mesocarnivore
- microcarnivore
- noncarnivore
- obligate carnivore
- omnicarnivore
Questions about carnivore
- What does carnivore mean?
- Carnivore means an organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
- What is carnivore in Hindi?
- Carnivore in Hindi is मांसाहारी (mānsāhārī), माँसाहारी (mā̃sāhārī). See Carnivore meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is carnivore?
- Carnivore can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce carnivore?
- Carnivore is pronounced /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of carnivore?
- The plural of carnivore is carnivores.
Words near carnivore in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: carnivore (page history and authors); Carnivore (page history and authors); मांसाहारी (Marathi) (page history and authors); درندہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); carnivore (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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