carnivorous

carnivore | American Dictionary

carnivore
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑr·nəˌvɔr, -ˌvoʊr/
an animal that eats meat

carnivorous

adjective[ not gradable ]us/kɑrˈnɪv·ə·rəs/
Lions and tigers are carnivorous.

Examples of carnivore

carnivore
Concurrent with habitat loss is the decreasing numbers of wild animals, particularly carnivores, in many countries.
Clearly then, in bats the subtle timing of viral dissemination must differ from the classical carnivore story.
The mammals examined in the forests and coastal zone were grouped into artiodactyls (bovids, suids), carnivores, rodents or pholidotes.
This question was addressed recently in the ferret, a carnivore whose visual system development approaches that of primates and humans in terms of biological complexity.
Relative sensitivities of mammalian carnivores to habitat fragmentation.
Among mammals, immature ticks have been identified on a wide diversity of species, including elephant shrews, rodents, lagomorphs, hyraxes, carnivores, equids and ruminants.
Foxes were the only carnivore species seen in the release site.
Arthropods, mainly insects, constituted a significant part of the diet of the two carnivores.
In this way ticks were recorded on ungulates, carnivores, rodents or pholidotes.
A further curious difference involves the effect of cholinergic modulators on relay cells based on data from rodents and carnivores.
As if we possessed a carnivore's teeth and digestive tract, thoughtless cliché places us 'at the top of the food chain'.
The advantages for symbolic communication in a creature so poorly endowed to be a carnivore had to constitute a considerable force of selection.
For instance, carnassial teeth evolved in the carnivores as tools for slicing meat.
More distant carnivore families could not be amplified.
These primary producers may then be exploited by aquatic herbivores, which are in turn consumed by carnivores.
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