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A carnivore (KAR-nih-vohr) meaning "meat eater" (Latin carn = flesh + vorare = to devour) is an animal that eats a diet consisting solely of meat, whether it comes from live animals or dead (scavenging).
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Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting mostly of meat.
Also, the word could refer to the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which fit the first definition.
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Carnivore An organism that captures and consumes animals
Catadromous fish.. Fish that spawns in seawater but feed and spends most of its life in estuarine or fresh water
Chaetognaths. See Arrowworms ...
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carnivore -- Literally, an organism that eats meat. Most carnivores are animals, but a few fungi, plants, and protists are as well.
carpel -- A unit of the pistil; it is evolutionarily a modified leaf.
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carnivores Term applied to a heterotroph, usually an animal, that eats other animals. Carnivores function as secondary, tertiary, or top consumers in food chains and food webs.
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Carnivores at the ends of long food chains (e.g., ospreys, pelicans, falcons, and eagles) once suffered serious declines in fecundity and hence in population size because of this.
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carnivore
[L. caro, carnis, flesh + voro, to devour]
An animal, such as a shark, hawk, or spider, that eats other animals.
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carnivores: animals that eat other animals.
carrying capacity: a situation when a population has reached the maximum size that the environment can support.
catabolism: the breakdown or digestion of large, complex molecules.
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carnivore One of the flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora. Also, any organism that eats animals. Adj., carnivorous.
carotene A red, orange, or yellow pigment belonging to the group of carotenoids; precursor of vitamin A.
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Cynognathus (a doglike carnivore) shows a further increase in size of the dentary bone. The other three bones are located inside the back portion of the jaw. Some teeth are multicusped and the teeth fit together tightly.
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The most significant relation is the relation of predation (to eat or to be eaten), which leads to the essential concepts in ecology of food chains (for example, the grass is consumed by the herbivore, itself consumed by a carnivore, ...
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And normally we will sort it by major types, major functions, such as biomass of plants or biomass of herbivores or biomass of carnivores. And when I'm saying biomass, I mainly mean biomass of plants, which is what we focus most of our work on.
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