CARNIVORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carnivora mean? 

• CARNIVORA (noun)
  The noun CARNIVORA has 1 sense:

1. cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia

  Familiarity information: CARNIVORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARNIVORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carnivora; order Carnivora

Hypernyms ("Carnivora" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Carnivora"):

carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)

Pinnipedia; suborder Pinnipedia (seals; sea lions; walruses)

Canidae; family Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)

family Hyaenidae; Hyaenidae (hyenas)

family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

family Ursidae; Ursidae (bears and extinct related forms)

family Viverridae; family Viverrinae; Viverridae; Viverrinae (genets; civets; mongooses)

family Mustelidae; Mustelidae (weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens)

family Procyonidae; Procyonidae (raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas)

Holonyms ("Carnivora" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

 Context examples 

Carnivora are primarily meat eaters, however bears are omnivorous and herbivorous pandas may consume fish and insects.

(Carnivora, NCI Thesaurus)

You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That greeting was, indeed, a frightful outburst of sound, the uproar of the carnivora cage when the step of the bucket-bearing keeper is heard in the distance.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)