🦊 Meat and plant eater 🥩 Meat and plant based

mesocarnivore

9.9

Relating to animals that eat mostly meat but also fruits or plants

adjective
/ˌmɛzoʊˈkɑrnɪˌvɔr/

Specialized

: mesocarnívoro

The mesocarnivore diet includes both meat and vegetables.

Examples

Ecologists study how mesocarnivore species adapt to changes in food availability.
Understanding how mesocarnivore species meet their nutritional needs helps ecologists assess the health of various ecosystems.
The red fox is considered a mesocarnivore because it eats both meat and plant material.
Many wild canids are classified as mesocarnivore due to their balanced diets.
The mesocarnivore lifestyle can be healthy if balanced.
The red fox is classified as a mesocarnivore because its diet consists of approximately 60% meat and 40% plant matter.
Many species of wild canids, like wolves and coyotes, qualify as mesocarnivores since they consume a diet that includes both animal protein and vegetation.

Synonyms

omnivorous

vsmesocarnivore

4 5.6

Able to eat both plants and animals

focuses on diets with a moderate meat proportion around fifty percent

all-devouring

vsmesocarnivore

7.4

Animals that eat both plants and other animals

focuses on diets with a moderate meat proportion rather than general eating

How Carnivorous

carnivore

23 3.4

mesocarnivore

Specialized

9.9

omnivore

Specialized

9 3.9

herbivore

Specialized

9 3.7

Surface Forms

mesocarnivore positive

Morphology

mesocarnivore = carnivore (semi-transparent) = meso + carnivore + meso

As an adjectival sense derived from the same scientific composition, the prefix 'meso-' remains technical; learners who know 'carnivore' may guess 'moderately carnivorous', but precise numeric range is specialized.

Etymology

Mesocarnivore as an adjective comes from meso- 'middle' and carnivore 'meat eater', so it describes animals or diets with a moderate amount of meat, often about 50–70% of their food.