Hyphenation of carnivorous

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word carnivorous? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

car-niv-o-rous

Definitions of carnivorous:

1.	Relating to or characteristic of carnivores The lion and other carnivorous animals
2.	(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals Carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects

Synonyms of carnivorous:

adj	placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
adj	carnivorous, flesh-eating, meat-eating, zoophagous, predacious, predaceous, piscivorous

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