Hypercarnivore vs. Animal
Difference Between Hypercarnivore and Animal
Hypercarnivorenoun
Any animal whose diet is predominantly (more than 70%) meat from animals.
Most sharks are hypercarnivores.Animalnoun
In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.Hypercarnivorenoun
(paleobiology) Any creature with an increased slicing component of dentition relative to the grinding component.
Animalnoun
In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
Animalnoun
In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
Animalnoun
(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
My students are animals.Animalnoun
(informal) A person of a particular type.
He's a political animal.Animalnoun
, thing.
a whole different animalAnimaladjective
Of or relating to animals.
animal instinctsAnimaladjective
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
animal passionsAnimaladjective
Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
Animaladjective
Excellent
Animalnoun
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Animaladjective
of the appetites and passions of the body;
animal instinctscarnal knowledgefleshly desirea sensual delight in eatingmusic is the only sensual pleasure without viceAnimaladjective
of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;
the animal kingdomanimal instinctsanimal fatsdecaying vegetable matter
