English > carnivore: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A terrestrial / terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal. |
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| Example | "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb" |
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| Member of | Carnivora, order Carnivora | cats |
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| Narrower | bear | massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
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| canine, canid | Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles |
| feline, felid | Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws |
| fissiped mammal, fissiped | terrestrial / terrestrial carnivores |
| musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline | fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals |
| procyonid | plantigrade carnivorous mammals |
| viverrine, viverrine mammal | small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
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| Spanish | carnívoro |
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| Catalan | carnívor |
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| Adjectives | carnivorous | relating to or characteristic of carnivores |
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