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Predator vs Carnivore - What's the difference?

predator | carnivore |

As nouns the difference between predator and carnivore

is that predator is any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food while carnivore is any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet.

As a proper noun Carnivore is

a computer system designed by the FBI to monitor e-mail and electronic communications.

predator

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia predator) (en noun)
  • any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food
  • someone who attacks and plunders for gain
  • a sexual predator
    • The woman was jailed after the judge called her a predator .

    Related terms

    * predation * predatory

    Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , predator, predatori , predatora, predatora , predatoru, predatorima , predatora, predatore , predatore, predatori , predatoru, predatorima , predatorom, predatorima }}

    carnivore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any animal that eats meat as the main part of its diet.
  • (label) A mammal belonging to the order Carnivora.
  • (informal) A person who is not a vegetarian.

    • Usage notes

    Not all meat-eaters (e.g. meat-eating birds and fish) belong to Carnivora, and not all Carnivora are meat-eaters (e.g. giant panda). To avoid the confusion, a new term carnivoran has been introduced to mean "belonging to Carnivora".

    Synonyms

    * meatarian, meatatarian (of people)

    Derived terms

    * obligate carnivore

    Related terms

    {{rel3, Carnivora , carnivoran , carnivorous , folivore , frugivore , hemovore , herbivore , insectivore , omnivore}}