[a. F. carnivore, ad. L. carnivor-us flesh-eating.] A carnivorous animal; one of the Carnivora. Also, a carnivorous plant.
1854. Owen, in Circ. Sc. (1865), II. 86/1. The … talons … enable the carnivore to seize the prey.
1881. G. Allen, Vignettes, i. 5. Fighting with their teeth, like carnivores.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 July, 5/1. Great tropical carnivores like the beautiful Sarracenias, with their ingeniously devised traps for luring unhappy insects to their living tomb.
