word | carnivorous |
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definition | Meat-eating or flesh-eating. |
eg_sentence | He'd gotten tired of his vegetarian guinea pigs and decided he preferred carnivorous pets such as ferrets. |
explanation | The order of mammals that Linnaeus named the Carnivora includes such families as the dogs, the bears, the raccoons, the weasels, the hyenas, the cats, and the seals. Most carnivores eat only meat in the wild, but some have varied diets; some bears, for instance, normally eat far more vegetation than meat. Carnivores have powerful jaws and complex teeth, and most are highly intelligent. Humans, like their ape cousins, are basically omnivores (see omnivore). |
IPA | kɑrˈnɪvərəs |
Tags: mwvb::unit:4, mwvb::unit:4:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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