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< carnivore

Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite >

car·niv·o·rous

(kär-n

s) KEY

ADJECTIVE:

Of or relating to carnivores.
Flesh-eating or predatory: a carnivorous bird.
Characterized by destructive or predatory behavior or instincts: "a city becoming increasingly carnivorous as it becomes decreasingly serious about governance" (George F. Will).
Botany Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them; insectivorous.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin carnivorus : car , carn-, flesh; see sker- ¹ in Indo-European roots + -vorus, -vorous

OTHER FORMS:
car·nivo·rous·ly (Adverb), car·nivo·rous·ness (Noun)

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