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say it: KAHR-ni-vawr
carnivore is a noun meaning "a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
“terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb”
any animal that feeds on flesh
“Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore”
“insectivorous plants are considered carnivores”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carnivore come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.