Meanings
adjectivemeat-eating (not comparable)
- not comparableThat 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of animals) carnivorous
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Origin
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