meat-eating
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- adjective
- /ˈmiːtˌiːtɪŋ/
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carnívoro
- Features of their jaws and teeth show that the larger canid species have also tended to become hypercarnivorous; that is, more purely meat-eating.
- meat-eating dinosaurs
- meat-eating animals
- large meat-eating
What is the name for the group of meat eating birds?
- What is the name for the group of meat eating birds?
Examples
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I love it when my meat-eating friends at least look at how the animal was treated and try to make the most humane and healthiest choice.
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The ethics of meat-eating are a contentious issue in discussions of global food systems.
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What is the name for the group of meat eating birds?
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Plus, my meat-eating husband loves it all.
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To think that a meat-eating animal would not eat meat is unbelievable.
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But by the end of the 17th century, meat-eating, the basis of the English diet, had come into question.
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If nothing else, this also would mean less wasteful meat-eating.
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Because it can infect nearly all meat-eating animals, it poses a public health risk worldwide.
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For all the stories about pushy vegetarians (which incidentally tend to remind me of the complaints about those nasty atheists), remember that we live in a meat-eating world, and vegetarians generally have to put up with a hell of a lot more.
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The tiger is a large meat-eating animal that hunts for its prey in the jungle.
Synonyms
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5.5
Eating other animals or insects for food
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An animal that eats the meat of other animals
An animal that eats other animals for food
Antonyms
How Carnivorous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word meat-eating comes from two simple English words, meat and eat. Meat once meant 'food' and eat means 'to eat', so meat-eating literally means 'eating meat' and describes animals that feed on the flesh of other animals.