Usually means: Eats meat as primary diet.
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  1. carnivorous: Merriam-Webster
  2. carnivorous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carnivorous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carnivorous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carnivorous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carnivorous, carnivorous: Wordnik
  7. carnivorous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. carnivorous: Wiktionary
  9. carnivorous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carnivorous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carnivorous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. carnivorous: Dictionary.com
  13. carnivorous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. carnivorous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Carnivorous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Carnivorous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. carnivorous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. carnivorous: Rhymezone
  19. carnivorous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. carnivorous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. carnivorous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. carnivorous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. carnivorous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. carnivorous: Legal dictionary

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  1. carnivorous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. carnivorous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. carnivorous: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. carnivorous: Evolution Glossary
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carnivorous: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carnivorous)

adjective:  Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
adjective:  Predatory or flesh-eating.
adjective:  (botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.

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