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Predator vs Carnivoran - What's the difference?

predator | carnivoran |

As nouns the difference between predator and carnivoran

is that predator is any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other organisms (their prey), primarily for food while carnivoran is (zoology) any member of the order carnivora .

As an adjective carnivoran is

(zoology) of or pertaining to the carnivores, or to the order carnivora .

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 .

    Anagrams

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

    Noun

  • Declension

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

    carnivoran

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Of or pertaining to the carnivores, or to the order Carnivora
  • * 1996 , John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution Vol.2 , P.486
  • ...the earliest carnivoran diversity appears in the early Miocene rift sediments of East Africa...

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the order Carnivora .