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carnivorous 音标拼音: [kɑrn'ɪvɚəs] a. 食肉的 食肉的 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}, { insectivorous}, { omnivorous}] 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] Carnose36 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
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