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CARNIVORE
Definition of CARNIVORE
noun
An organism that feeds chiefly on animals; an animal that feeds on meat as the main part of its diet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French carnivore, from Latin carnivorus. In the zoological sense, coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French carnivore.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (10,004)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CARNIVORE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARNIVORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARNIVORE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEINORRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start CARNIV
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CARNIVORE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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