FLESH-EATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flesh-eating mean? 

• FLESH-EATING (adjective)
  The adjective FLESH-EATING has 1 sense:

1. (of animals) carnivorous

  Familiarity information: FLESH-EATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLESH-EATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of animals) carnivorous

Synonyms:

flesh-eating; meat-eating; zoophagous

Similar:

carnivorous ((used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

His ferocious cry and the horrible energy of his pursuit both assured me that this was surely one of the great flesh-eating dinosaurs, the most terrible beasts which have ever walked this earth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, it is very clear to me that in so long a period one would have expected that the carnivorous creatures, multiplying unchecked, would have exhausted their food supply and have been compelled to either modify their flesh-eating habits or die of hunger.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)