meat-eating

English

Etymology

Compound of meat +‎ eating.

Adjective

meat-eating (not comparable)

1. That eats meat; carnivorous.

   Coordinate terms: fish-eating, plant-eating

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 137:

     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).

Translations

that eats meat — see carnivorous