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meat-eatingadjective1Feeding on other animals; carnivorous: meat-eating dinosaurs...- Sifting through the collection, they separated out the bones of a theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur.
- The Tasmanian Devil is the largest meat-eating marsupial existing today.
- The star of the exhibition is Fuzzy Raptor, a meat-eating dinosaur covered in small, delicate feathers.
1.1Eating meat as part of one’s diet: he will go with meat-eating friends to a steak house and order a salad...- We have a vegetarian and a meat-eating household, so we have vegetarian options.
- In the early 21st century, the biggest meat-eating countries were Luxembourg, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
- One way of changing meat-eating habits for the better could be a return to the independent high-street butcher.
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