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"carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects"adjective(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animalsOpposite:
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"the lion and other carnivorous animals"relating to or characteristic of carnivores
Definition that contains carnivorous
- leech carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
- bloodsucker carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
- morone carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes
- lentibulariaceae carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea
- venus's flytrap carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
- genus antrodemus carnivorous dinosaur of North America; late Jurassic
- water boatman carnivorous aquatic bug having paddle-like hind legs
- aphid lion carnivorous larva of lacewing flies
- hirudinean carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
- dasyurus viverrinus carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania