Definitions for carnivore

carnivore car·ni·vore

Spelling: [kahr-nuh-vawr, -vohr]
IPA: /ˈkɑr nəˌvɔr, -ˌvoʊr/

Carnivore is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 413 anagrams from letters in carnivore (aceinorrv).

Definitions for carnivore

noun

  1. an animal that eats flesh.
  2. a flesh-eating mammal of the order Carnivora, comprising the dogs, cats, bears, seals, and weasels.
  3. an insectivorous plant.

Origin of carnivore

1850-55; Latin carnivorus carnivorous

Examples for carnivore

In Area D the child's right foot bones were discovered with "carnivore damage."

The only other carnivore as abundant as the sabretooth was a giant wolf.

It is more subtle in its operation but of the same order of ruthlessness as the ravages of a carnivore.

We know of no other reports of this carnivore from the area.

Nimravus gomphodus was a carnivore about the size of a Panther.

“Some carnivore of yours has remembered its old habits,” I said after a pause.

The humerus resembles that of a carnivore rather than that of an Ungulate.

But I learned that though I am a carnivore yet I have not the pluck to be a vulture.

At 9:00 A.M. it caught a small fish at the mouth of carnivore River.

The pirate-wasp was a carnivore, but this was the season when the wasps raised young.

Word Value for carnivore
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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