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carnivore

[kahr-nuh-vawr] / ˈkɑr nəˌvɔr /
ADJECTIVE
flesh-eating
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


NOUN
animal that eats flesh
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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While the coyote’s expressive yellow eyes nearly make you sniffle, he remains a carnivore with sharp black claws.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Myerscough said that through contacting experts, they were able to establish that it was the lower jaw of a rhomaleosaurus, a carnivore also known as a sea dragon.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

He follows a carnivore diet, picks up snakes with his bare hands, and pushes videos of himself doing pushups shirtless and in jeans.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

"It's the only dinosaur found at this site that wasn't a bird, it was a carnivore, and it was much bigger than everything else that we've found there."

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

As a result of this fundamental inefficiency, no mammalian carnivore has ever been domesticated for food.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued in 1762 that consumers of meat were “more ferocious than other men,” while Lord Byron, in 1819, characterized humans as carnivores who, “like the shark or tiger,” must have their prey.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Suraci stressed that large carnivores, like any species, have inherent value beyond the services they provide to human beings -- but said that failing to make the economic case would be a disservice to them.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

The single person, or the lone vegetarian in a house full of carnivores, might not eat a whole pot of soup in one sitting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

These carnivores can go days, even weeks, without food.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2026

Gethenians are not a hunting people, because there is very little to hunt—no large herbivores, thus no large carnivores, except in the teeming seas.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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