Dictionary

meat-eating en · ADJ

Etymology

Compound of meat + eating.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) That eats meat; carnivorous.
   • Once again, we see the anthropological bias against women (perhaps related to the fact that meat-eating Europeans and Americans cannot take grains seriously as a source of complete nourishment and so feel a need to stress meat eating and hunting). 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 137:

Coordinates

fish-eating · plant-eating