Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat.
Also, the word could refer to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition.
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carnivore -- Literally, an organism that eats meat. Most carnivores are animals, but a few fungi, plants, and protists are as well.
carnivores Term applied to a heterotroph, usually an animal, that eats other animals. Carnivores function as secondary, tertiary, or top consumers in food chains and food webs.
carnivore
[L. caro, carnis, flesh + voro, to devour]
An animal, such as a shark, hawk, or spider, that eats other animals.
carotenoids ...
Carnivore: An organism that captures and consumes animals.
Catadromous fish: Fish that spawns in seawater but feed and spends most of its life in estuarine or fresh water.
Chaetognaths: See Arrowworms.
carnivore - meat eater, often a predator of other animals
cast skin - exoskeleton of a previous molt of an immature insect ...
Carnivore animal which eats other animals
(carni = flesh; vore = to eat‚ devour)
Carpels the wrist bones
(carpo = wrist) ...
Carnivores at the ends of long food chains (e.g., ospreys, pelicans, falcons, and eagles) once suffered serious declines in fecundity and hence in population size because of this.
carnivore One of the flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora. Also, any organism that eats animals. Adj., carnivorous.
carotene A red, orange, or yellow pigment belonging to the group of carotenoids; precursor of vitamin A.
Cynognathus (a doglike carnivore) shows a further increase in size of the dentary bone. The other three bones are located inside the back portion of the jaw. Some teeth are multicusped and the teeth fit together tightly.
The remaining saurishian dinosaurs were theropods, the bipedal carnivores exemplified by Allosaurus. Deciphering the evolutionary relationships of the theropods is difficult due to the often fragmentary nature of theropod fossils.
The domestic dog, canis familiaris, comprising about 400 breeds, of the carnivore family canidae. They are worldwide in distribution and live in association with people. (walkers mammals of the world, 5th ed, p1065) ...
And normally we will sort it by major types, major functions, such as biomass of plants or biomass of herbivores or biomass of carnivores. And when I'm saying biomass, I mainly mean biomass of plants, which is what we focus most of our work on.
 See also: Organ, Species, Plant, Animal, Animals
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