carnivoran en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kɑːˈnɪvərən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /kɑːrˈnɪvərən/ (General-American)
- kärnĭvərən
Etymology
From Carnivora + -an.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the order Carnivora.
These creatures are so anatomically similar it’s proven hard to figure out their relationships, both with one another and with later carnivoran groups.
2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:...the earliest carnivoran diversity appears in the early Miocene rift sediments of East Africa...
1996, John L. Gittleman, Carnivore Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution Vol.2, page 486: