| Meaning | (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals. |
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| Example | "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" |
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| Category | plant, flora, plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
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| Narrower | flesh-eating, meat-eating, zoophagous | (of animals) carnivorous |
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| piscivorous | feeding on fishes |
| predacious, predaceous | hunting and killing other animals for food |
| Opposite | herbivorous | feeding only on plants |
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| insectivorous | (of animals and plants) feeding on insects |
| omnivorous | feeding on both plants and animals |
| Spanish | carnívoro |
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| Catalan | carnívor, haragijale |
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