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CARNIVORE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animal that feeds on flesh

Example:

insectivorous plants are considered carnivores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("carnivore" is a kind of...):

predator; predatory animal (any animal that lives by preying on other animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal

Example:

terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("carnivore" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carnivore"):

fissiped; fissiped mammal (terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons)

canid; canine (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)

felid; feline (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws)

bear (massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws)

viverrine; viverrine mammal (small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World)

mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)

procyonid (plantigrade carnivorous mammals)

Holonyms ("carnivore" is a member of...):

Carnivora; order Carnivora (cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia)

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