Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Flesh-eating; carnivorous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Flesh-eating; zoöphagous; carnivorous, as a marsupial; pertaining to the Sarcophaga: sometimes specifically contrasted with phytophagous or herbivorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Feeding on
flesh ;carnivorous .
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Examples
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Iranians bring flowers, then stand or kneel beside the sarcophagous and recite his poems.
The Road to Esfahan 2008
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Same with lignivorous/xylophagous, herbivorous/phytophagous, and of course carnivorous/sarcophagous.
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