carnivore
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(noun) any animal that feeds on flesh: "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores" |
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Related Words: predator, predatory animal |
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(noun) terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb |
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Related Words: bear, canid, canine, eutherian, eutherian mammal, felid, feline, fissiped, fissiped mammal, mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal, placental, placental mammal, procyonid, viverrine, viverrine mammal |
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