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CARNIVORA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia

Synonyms:

Carnivora; order Carnivora

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Carnivora" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Carnivora"):

carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)

Pinnipedia; suborder Pinnipedia (seals; sea lions; walruses)

Canidae; family Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)

family Hyaenidae; Hyaenidae (hyenas)

family Felidae; Felidae (cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

family Ursidae; Ursidae (bears and extinct related forms)

family Viverridae; family Viverrinae; Viverridae; Viverrinae (genets; civets; mongooses)

family Mustelidae; Mustelidae (weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens)

family Procyonidae; Procyonidae (raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas)

Holonyms ("Carnivora" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

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