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meat-eating

meat-eating adjective: that eats meat; carnivorous.

Adjective

meat-eating (not comparable)

  1. That eats meat; carnivorous.
    • Once again, we see the anthropological bias against women (perhaps related to the fact that meat-eating Europeans and Americans cannot take grains seriously as a source of complete nourishment and so feel a need to stress meat eating and hunting).1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 137

meat-eating meaning in Hindi and Marathi

meat-eating in Hindi

meat-eating, nonvegetarian, carnivorous
मांसाहारी mānsāhārī

meat-eating in Marathi

meat-eating, nonvegetarian
मांसाहारी māusāhārī

Origin of meat-eating

Compound of meat + eating.

Questions about meat-eating

What does meat-eating mean?
Meat-eating means that eats meat; carnivorous.
What is meat-eating in Hindi?
Meat-eating in Hindi is मांसाहारी (mānsāhārī). See Meat-eating meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is meat-eating?
Meat-eating is an adjective.

Words near meat-eating in the dictionary

  1. meat-and-potatoes
  2. meat-chopper
  3. meat-choppers
  4. meat-eater
  5. meat-eaters
  6. meat-eating
  7. meat-fork
  8. meat-forks
  9. meat-pie
  10. meat-pies
  11. meat-safe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meat-eating (page history and authors); मांसाहारी (Hindi) (page history and authors); मांसाहारी (Marathi) (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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