Carnivorous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Carnivorous \Car*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis,
     flesh + varare to devour.]
     Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied:
     (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the
         tiger, dog, etc.;
     (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food;


     (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
         [1913 Webster] Carnose

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  carnivorous
       adj 1: relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and
              other carnivorous animals"
       2: (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals;
          "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting
          small animals especially insects" [ant: {herbivorous}, {omnivorous},
           {insectivorous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "carnivorous":
     cannibal, cannibalistic, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating,
     feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous,
     grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating,
     herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian,
     man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious,
     omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous,
     plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial,
     vegetable-eating, vegetarian
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CARNIVOROUS, adj.  Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous
  vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.