Carnivorous

Definitions: Carnivorous

Carnivorous

Adjective

1. Relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals".

2. (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects".

Date "carnivorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Etymology: Carnivorous \Car*niv"o*rous\, adjective. [Latin expression carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh varare to devour.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Carnivorous

Domain	Definitions
Satire	CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Antonyms: herbivorous (adj), insectivorous (adj), omnivorous (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Carnivorous

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Carnivorous

Specialty definitions using "carnivorous": argentine ant ♦ caco- mixle, Carnivorous, cat family, cats, cerebellar ectopia, Chiari malformation ♦ dogs ♦ goshawks ♦ harriers, hawks, herniation of the cerebellar tonsils, hindbrain herniation, hyaenas ♦ non-selective poisoning ♦ Old World vultures ♦ película monomolecular ♦ sarcophagus, seals ♦ Taurocholic Acid ♦ walruses. (references)

Etymologies containing "carnivorous": Carnassial, Carnivora. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Carnivorous

Domain	Title
Books	Carnivorous Plants (reference) Carnivorous Plants (Nature's Predators) (reference) Carnivorous Plants of the World (reference) Elizabite: Adventures of a Carnivorous Plant (reference) The Carnivorous Plants (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Carnivorous Plant Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Standard Deviants TV - Dinosaurs, Lifestyles of the Big & Carnivorous (A Day as a Dino / Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Carnivorous Erection (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Carnivorous (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Carnivorous

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Non-Fiction Usage: Carnivorous

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Baylisascaris is the scientific name of a type of intestinal roundworm that can infect a variety of carnivorous (meat-eating) animals. (references)
		Any animal bitten or scratched by either a wild, carnivorous mammal or a bat that is not available for testing should be regarded as having been exposed to rabies. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.
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Usage Frequency: Carnivorous

"Carnivorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carnivorous" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	72	39,377

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Carnivorous

Expressions using "carnivorous": carnivorous bat ♦ carnivorous plant. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carnivorous

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carnivorous plant	397	carnivorous cook plant	4
carnivorous	37	carnivorous dinosaur	4
animal carnivorous	13	carnivorous plant type	4
carnivorous plant supply	6	carnivorous catalog plant	3
carnivorous fish	6	buy carnivorous plant	3
carnivorous international plant society	5	carnivorous plant terrarium	3
carnivorous plant sale	5	care carnivorous plant	2
carnival carnivorous	5	carnivorous faq plant	2
carnivorous plant seed	4	carnivorous information plant	2
carnivorous picture plant	4	carnivorous mammal	2
		carnivorous plant society	2
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Modern Translations: Carnivorous

Language		Translations for "carnivorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mishngrënës (carnivore). (various references)

Arabic		‏لاحم (sarcophagus), ‏أكل اللحم. (various references)

Bulgarian		месояден. (various references)

Chinese		肉食. (various references)

Czech		masožravý. (various references)

Danish		koedaedende plante (carnivorous plant). (various references)

Dutch		vleesetend. (various references)

Esperanto		karnovora, karnomanĝa. (various references)

Farsi		حیوان گوشتخوار. (various references)

Finnish		lihaa syövä. (various references)

French		carnivore, carnassier (carnivore). (various references)

German		fleischfressend. (various references)

Greek		σαρκοβόροσ (flesh eating), σαρκοφάγοσ (sarcophagus). (various references)

Hebrew		אוכל בשר. (various references)

Hungarian		húsevő (carnivore). (various references)

Indonesian		makan daging. (various references)

Italian		carnivoro (carnivore). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		食肉類 (carnivorous animals), 食肉植物 (carnivorous plants), 肉食獣 (carnivorous animal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょくにくしょくぶつ (carnivorous plants), しょくにくるい (carnivorous animals), にくしょくじゅう (carnivorous animal). (various references)

Korean		육식. (various references)

Manx		feill-eeagh (flesh-eating). (various references)

Norwegian		kjøttetende. (various references)

Pig Latin		arnivorouscay

Portuguese		carnívoro (carnivore, wolfish). (various references)

Romanian		carnivor (carnivore). (various references)

Russian		плотоядный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mesožderan, koji se hrani mesom. (various references)

Spanish		carnívoro (carnivore, meat eating). (various references)

Swedish		köttätande. (various references)

Turkish		etoburlarla ilgili, etobur (meat-eater, sarcophagous), etçil (sarcophagous). (various references)

Ukranian		комахоїдний (insectivorous), м'ясоїдний (meat eating). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carnivorous

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	carnivorus. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Carnivorous

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carnivorous": carnivorously, carnivorousness, carnivorousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carnivorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carniverous, carnivoros, carnivorus, cornivorous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carnivorous"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carnivorous" (pronounced kÄrni"verus)
6	-n i" v er u s	omnivorous.
5	-i" v er u s	herbivorous, insectivorous.
4	-v er u s	avarice.
3	-er u s	adulterous, adventurous, amorous, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, glamorous, heterosporous, homosporous, humerus, humorous, lecherous, murderous, numerous, odorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, tetramerous, thunderous, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, unglamorous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous.
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Anagrams: Carnivorous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: corrasion, rancorous, voracious.
	-3 letters: canorous, carrions, corvinas, rancours.
	-4 letters: acinous, carious, carrion, cirrous, coronas, corsair, corvina, curaris, curiosa, currans, ouraris, ovonics, racoons, rancors, rancour, saviour, various, vicunas.
	-5 letters: acinus, acorns, anuric, arioso, arsino, avions, cairns, casino, cirrus, cornua, cornus, corona, cousin, covins, croons, cruors, curari, curios, curran, cursor, incurs, invars, narcos, norias, orcins, orison.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-u-v"
	+1 letter: oncornavirus.
	+2 letters: carnivorously.
	+3 letters: oncornaviruses.
	+4 letters: carnivorousness, uncontroversial.
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