MEAT-EATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meat-eating mean? 

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

1. (of animals) carnivorous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAT-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 

Paleontologists working in Tanzania have identified a new species of hyaenodont, a type of extinct meat-eating mammal.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinosaurs made a living.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)