meat-eating

Thân thiện

The lion is a meat-eating animal.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Carnivorous: Describes an animal that primarily consumes the flesh of other animals as its main source of food.

Usage

• The adjective "meat-eating" is used to classify animals based on their diet. It is typically used in scientific, zoological, or general descriptive contexts.
• It functions as an attributive adjective, meaning it usually comes before the noun it modifies (e.g., "meat-eating animals").

Examples

• Adjective:
  • Lions and tigers are classic examples of meat-eating mammals.
  • The discovery of a fossilized tooth provided evidence that the dinosaur was meat-eating.
  • Not all reptiles are meat-eating; some, like iguanas, are primarily herbivorous.

Advanced Usage

• "Obligate meat-eater": A term used to describe an animal that must eat meat to survive and cannot thrive on a plant-based diet.
  • Cats are obligate meat-eaters; they require specific nutrients found only in animal tissue.

Variants and Related Words

• Carnivore (n): An animal that eats meat. This is the noun form.
  • The wolf is a skilled carnivore.
• Carnivorous (adj): A more formal synonym for "meat-eating."
  • The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant.
• Predatory (adj): Often implies hunting live prey, which is a behavior of many meat-eating animals.
  • The hawk has a predatory nature.

Synonyms

• Carnivorous
• Flesh-eating
• Predaceous (typically refers to hunting and eating live prey)

Antonyms

• Herbivorous: Plant-eating.
• Omnivorous: Eating both plants and meat.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of animals) carnivorous

Từ đồng nghĩa

• flesh-eating
• meat-eating
• zoophagous