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Word entry · 9 letters

carnivore

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"Meat-eating animal"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/Part of speech nounSorted aceinorrvStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any animal that feeds on flesh

Word origin

Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.

Used in a sentence

  • As juveniles the crocodiles are frequently predated by larger carnivores.
  • The panda and the panther are both carnivores.
  • Well, she has now gone / From this unhappy planet / With all the carnivores / And the destructors on it

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