Carnivorous means feeding on the flesh of other animals. A carnivorous fish.
Some plants are carnivorous too, which is how they live where the soil has no nitrogen. A carnivorous animal has a shorter gut than a plant eater, since meat is easier to digest.
1adjectivecarnivorousFeeding on the flesh of other animals.
“The tank held one carnivorous fish and nothing else survived.”
carnivorous is a quality.
Latin carnivorus is caro, flesh, plus vorare, to devour.
Proto-Indo-European
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Latin
carnivorus — flesh-eating
English, today
carnivorous
From Latin carnivorus (“flesh-eating”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA