Carnivore

Definitions: Carnivore

Carnivore

Noun

1. Terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.

2. Any animal that feeds on flesh: "Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore"; "insectivorous plants are considered carnivores".

Date "carnivore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Etymology: Carnivore \Car`ni*vore\, noun. [Compare to the French expression carnivore.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Carnivore

English words defined with "carnivore": Ailurus fulgens ♦ bear cat ♦ Cacomixl, carnassial tooth, cat bear, Clouded tiger, Cryptoprocta ferox ♦ fossa, fossa cat ♦ Galictis vittatus, genus Proterochampsa, genus Saurosuchus, grison, Grison vittatus ♦ lesser panda ♦ Maikel, Mellivora capensis ♦ Nandine ♦ panda, Proterochampsa ♦ Rasse, ratel, red panda ♦ Saurosuchus ♦ Teledu ♦ velociraptor ♦ wild cat ♦ young carnivore. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carnivore" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (carnivorous).

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Modern Usage: Carnivore

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Carnivore (2000)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Carnivore

Domain	Title
Books	Carnivore (reference) Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution (Vol. 2) (reference) Carnivore Conservation (reference) Carnivore Ecology in Arid Lands (Adaptations of Desert Organisms) (reference) Desert Puma: Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation of an Enduring Carnivore (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Small Carnivore Conservation (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Carnivore (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Carnivore [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Carnivore [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Carnivore

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Usage Frequency: Carnivore

"Carnivore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Carnivore" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.78%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	2.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Carnivore

Expression using "carnivore": young carnivore. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carnivore

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carnivore	145	carnivore download	3
carnivore raccoonlike	22	carnivore diet raw	3
carnivore design web	21	carnivore like racoon	3
carnivore plante	15	band carnivore	3
carnivore fbi	12	air carnivore nike	3
carnivore preservation trust	11	carnivore program	3
carnivore system	8	carnivore movie	2
carnivore racoonlike	8	carnivore discography	2
carnivore dinosaur	6	carnivore firewall	2
carnivore plant	6	carnivore software	2
animal carnivore	4	carnivore peter steele	2
carnivore like raccoon	4	carnivore restaurant	2
carnivore piante	4	carnivore government internet privacy	2
carnivore lyrics	4	carnivore game	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Carnivore

Language		Translations for "carnivore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mishngrënës (carnivorous). (various references)

Chinese		食肉动物 (predator). (various references)

Czech		masožravec, masožravá rostlina. (various references)

Danish		kødæder. (various references)

Dutch		vleeseter. (various references)

Finnish		lihansyöjä. (various references)

French		carnassier (carnivorous). (various references)

German		fleischfresser. (various references)

Greek		σαρκοφάγο. (various references)

Hebrew		בשרו� י (meat eating). (various references)

Hungarian		húsevő (carnivorous). (various references)

Indonesian		binatang pemakan daging. (various references)

Inuktitut		auktuqti. (various references)

Italian		carnivoro (carnivorous). (various references)

Manx		eeder foalley. (various references)

Pig Latin		arnivorecay

Portuguese		carnívoro (carnivorous, wolfish). (various references)

Romanian		carnivor (carnivorous). (various references)

Russian		плотоядный животное. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mesožder. (various references)

Spanish		carnívoro (carnivorous, meat eating). (various references)

Swedish		rovdjur (beast of prey, predator), karnivor. (various references)

Turkish		etobur hayvan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Carnivore

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carnivore": carnivores. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carnivore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carnavors, Carnedoe, carnivoer, carnivor, Carnivora, carnivorve, carnivory, carnivoure, carnivre, carrivore. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Carnivore"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carnivore" (pronounced kÄ"rnivô'r)
4	-i v ô' r	herbivore.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Carnivore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-v"
	-1 letter: veronica.
	-2 letters: carrion, cornier, corvina, corvine, overran.
	-3 letters: aeonic, arrive, carnie, carven, carver, cavern, coiner, cornea, corner, corrie, craven, craver, ironer, naiver, novice, orcein, orrice, racier, rancor, ravine, recoin, renvoi, vainer, varier, voicer.
	-4 letters: acorn, airer, aiver, areic, avion, cairn, caner, canoe, carer, carve, caver, cavie, ceria, corer, coria, coven, cover, covin, crane, crave.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-v"
	+1 letter: carnivores.
	+2 letters: overarching.
	+3 letters: overcharging, overclearing, overcramming, overreaching, overreacting, overreaction, overreliance.
	+4 letters: anticorrosive, conservatoire, controversial, incorporative, overreactions, overreliances, prevarication.
	+5 letters: anticorrosives, conservatoires, conservatorial, conservatories, nonretroactive, oncornaviruses, overcentralize, overdecorating, overdecoration, overextraction, picornaviruses, prevarications.
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