1640s, from Latin carnivorus "flesh-eating, feeding on flesh," from caro (genitive carnis) "flesh" (see carnage) + vorare "to devour" (see voracity).

meat-eating.

adj. Eating or living on flesh.

capable of trapping and digesting animals.

Animals whose diet consists primarily of other animals.

biology - meat eating

feeding on animal tissues.

eating flesh

(adj) relating to or characteristic of carnivores(adj) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals

Any animal that derives all or most of it nutrietion from the eating of animal other than insects.

Subsisting on nutrients obtained from the breakdown or animal tissue.

See carnivore

preying or feeding on animals

Plants trap insects and other small animals and derive nourishment from them.

Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora. Predatory or flesh eating. (botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.