English-Thai Dictionary

carnivorous

ADJ ที่ กิน เนื้อสัตว์ อื่น เป็น อาหาร  flesh-eating meat-eating ti-kin-nuea-sad-uen-pen-ar-han

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CARNIVOROUS

a.Eating or feeding on flesh; an epithet applied to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, etc.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CARNIVOROUS

Car *niv "o *rous, a. Etym: [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh + varare to devour. ]

 

Defn: Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a ) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc. ; (b ) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c ) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

carnivorous

car niv o rous |kärˈnivərəs kɑrˈnɪv (ə )rəs | ▶adjective (of an animal ) feeding on other animals. • (of a plant ) able to trap and digest small animals, esp. insects. DERIVATIVES car niv o rous ly adverb, car niv o rous ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin carnivorus, from caro, carn- ‘flesh ’ + -vorus (see -vorous ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

carnivorous

carnivorous |kɑːˈnɪv (ə )rəs | ▶adjective (of an animal ) feeding on other animals. • (of a plant ) able to trap and digest small animals, especially insects. DERIVATIVES carnivorously adverb, carnivorousness noun, carnivory |kɑːˈnɪv (ə )ri |noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin carnivorus, from caro, carn- ‘flesh ’ + -vorus (see -vorous ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

carnivorous

carnivorous adjective the giraffe is not a carnivorous animal: meat-eating, flesh-eating, predatory; raptorial; rare zoophagous, creophagous. ANTONYMS herbivorous, vegetarian.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

carnivorous

carnivorous adjective a carnivorous lizard: meat-eating, predatory, of prey, hunting, raptorial; rare creophagous, zoophagous. ANTONYMS herbivorous; vegetarian.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

carnivorous

car niv o rous /kɑː r nɪ́v (ə )rəs /形容詞 1 肉食性の (→herbivorous ), 肉を食べる .2 食虫性の .～̀ pl á nt 食虫植物 .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞