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Word | Carnivorous |
Tamil Meaning | மாமிச உண்ணி, மாமிச பட்சி, புலாலுண்ணும், புலால் உண்கிற (புலால் உண்ணும் விலங்கு), புலால் உண்ணுகிற. |
(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects / relating to or characteristic of carnivores / Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc. / meat-eating / (of an animal) feeding on other animals. / subsisting or feeding on animal tissues / of a plant : subsisting on nutrients obtained from the breakdown of animal protoplasm (as of insects) / of or relating to the carnivores / rapacious / : subsisting or feeding on animal tissues / : of or relating to the carnivores, | |
Usage | ⇒ Lion is a carnivorous animal ⇒ A cow is not a carnivore; she likes the taste of grain, not gore. ⇒ Most of these turtles are carnivorous , feeding on mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic insects, fish, and amphibians. ⇒ Tiger and lion are carnivorous animals |
Synonyms | omnivorous, predatory, greedy, flesh-eating, predacious, ravenous, starved, voracious, hungry, devouring, herbivorous, phytophagous, placental, rapacious, cannibal, graminivorous, granivorous, insatiable, insectivorous, man-eating, |
Antonyms | herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous, phytophagous, all-devouring, anthophagous, anthophilous, apivorous, baccivorous, carpophagous, fruit-eating, grass-eating, myrmecophagous, phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating, saprophagous, saprophytic, saprozoic, vegetarian, |
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