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Meanings of meat-eating in English

(Of animals) carnivorous.

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Examples for "flesh-eating"
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As the virus spreads, nearly everyone turns into a bubble-skinned, flesh-eating fiend.
Reuters
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Two other cases of flesh-eating infections have been reported recently in South Carolina.
Reuters
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He is a giant, the largest flesh-eating animal in all the great world.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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I have also known ruminants take to flesh-eating when opportunity offered.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Her flesh-eating horror movie attained notoriety when two people fainted at a screening.
The Guardian
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To be the discoverer of zoophagous mania would mark me as a coming man.
Anno Dracula
Usage of meat-eating in English
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All these dead bison are going to draw every meat-eating animal around.
The Mammoth Hunters
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FOR a vegetarian in a meat-eating family, Christmas is a trial.
The Irish Times
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Robots don't actually have to come up with meat-eating plots of their own.
Wired
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Stan comes from a tall, meat-eating family in Providence, Rhode Island.
The new yorker
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As Forrest ate he watched the hunting of the meat-eating yellow-jackets.
The Little Lady of the Big House
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Next comes meat-eating, and for the very same reason, in a minor degree.
Five Years of Theosophy
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I forgot everything-time ,theoncoming of night, and my meat-eating enemies.
Before Adam
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He says that the human teeth and stomach were primarily designed for meat-eating.
The new yorker
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Or which meat-eating dinosaurs were so huge that they ate sharks?
The Daily Telegraph
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Sometimes you do want to seek out meat-eating animals because of their special qualities.
The Shelters of Stone
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Among meat-eating mammals, different hunting styles are associated with disparate types of elbow anatomy.
Wired
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So what about all those arguments in favour of meat-eating and against vegan diets?
The Guardian
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We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all.
A Modern Utopia
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Such a large concentration of slaughtered aurochs brought every other meat-eating animal in the vicinity.
The Shelters of Stone
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The remains resemble meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods, researchers said.
Wired
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They pushed their lamb chops aside, and that was the end of their meat-eating days.
The Guardian
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Meat-eating through the time