carnivore

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɑː.nɪ.vɔː/    美 /ˈkɑɹ.nɪ.voɹ/|/ˈkaː.nɪ.voː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
    — As juveniles the crocodiles are frequently predated by larger carnivores.
  2. A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
    — The panda and the panther are both carnivores.
  3. A person who is not a vegetarian. informal
    — Well, she has now gone / From this unhappy planet / With all the carnivores / And the destructors on it
  4. A follower of the carnivore diet. informal

词形变化

carnivores plural

词汇关系

衍生词
carbivore carnivoracity carnivore diet carnivorism carnivorous carnivorousness carnivory facultative carnivore flexivore hypercarnivore hypocarnivore macrocarnivore megacarnivore mesocarnivore microcarnivore noncarnivore obligate carnivore omnicarnivore
相关词
Carnivora carnivoran carnivorous folivore frugivore hemovore herbivore insectivore omnivore piscivore

词源

Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.
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