Definition of "carnivoran" [carnivoran]

• Of or pertaining to the carnivores, or to the order Carnivora (adjective)
• Any member of the order Carnivora. (noun)

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• "While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*."
• "As explained in my article, detailed comparison indicates that the animal is not a carnivoran, but a squirrel."
• "They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade)."