Carnivorous

What do we mean by carnivorous?

Of or relating to carnivores. adjective

Flesh-eating or predatory. adjective

Characterized by destructive or predatory behavior or instincts. adjective

Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them. adjective

Eating or feeding on flesh; subsisting upon animal food: applied to animals which naturally seek animal food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, etc.; also to plants which feed upon insects, as the Drosera or sundew, the Pinguicula, the Dionæa or Venus's flytrap, and the various pitcher-bearing plants.

Specifically— In mammalogy, of or pertaining to the Carnivora; carnivoral; carnassial. In entomology, of or pertaining to the Carnivora; adephagous; predatory.

In odontography, trenchant; sectorial; carnassial: as, a carnivorous molar or premolar.

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. adjective

Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Canivora. adjective

Predatory or flesh eating. adjective

Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them. adjective

Relating to or characteristic of carnivores adjective

(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals adjective

Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.

Predatory or flesh eating.

Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.

Meat-eater,flesh eating animal carnivore Urban Dictionary

The practice of indulging in a diet strictly consiting of meat and animal based products. Carnivores typically abstain from eating products derived from the exploitation of fruits and vegatables. Urban Dictionary

One who eats the flesh of animals Urban Dictionary

A meat-eater. One who eats animal flesh. Urban Dictionary

One who truly cares for plant life by consuming the consumpters of the plants. Urban Dictionary

To eat animals. Urban Dictionary

1. An internet monitoring device that operates by catching bits and pieces of data sent from one internet user to another and then reassembling them for the FBI to examine. The FBI's controversial Carnivore spy system, which has been renamed DCS1000, is a specially configured Windows computer designed to sit on an Internet provider's network and monitor electronic communications. To retrieve the stored data, an agent stops by to pick up a removable hard drive with the information that the Carnivore system was configured to record. 2. An obsessive individual that seeks total control in a relationship by networking your social circle and monitoring your communications. 3. An animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals. The social behavior of a carnivore indicates the potential for information transfer and social learning among the species. Urban Dictionary

Aside a meateater, Carnivore is a New York thrash metal band leaded by Pete Steele from Type O Negative. Its the band that he was in before he formed Repulsion which turned into Type O Negative. They are a complete opposite of Type O, with fast songs, with the most hateful lyrics ever that are either political or a vision of a post-apocalyptic warrior. They released "Carnivore" album in 1985 and "Retaliation" in 1987. Urban Dictionary

A being that does not require dietary supplement pills in its diet because animal products provide the bulk of the nutrition. Urban Dictionary

A little used term to describe a woman who is super aggressive toward getting a guy. When we say agressive, she is definently on a hunt and bag mission Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to carnivorous:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word carnivorous:
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