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食肉动物

shí ròu dòng wù

4-character word Traditional 食肉動物

What 食肉动物 means

1. carnivore

The characters in 食肉动物

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 肉ròumeat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit)
• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 科学家称，他们在南美洲安第斯山脉的云雾森林中发现了一种新的食肉动物物种，这是 30 多年来的首次此类发现。
  Scientists say they have found a new species of carnivore in the cloud forests of the Andes mountains in South America — the first discovery of its kind in more than 30 years.