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).

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