Adjective: carnivorous kaa(r)'ni-vu-rus
- (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
"the lion and other carnivorous animals"
See also: creophagous [rare], flesh-eating, meat-eating, piscivorous, predaceous, predacious, zoophagous
Antonym: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous
Encyclopedia: Carnivorous