feòil-itheadair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From feòil (“flesh, meat”) +‎ ith (“eat”) +‎ -adair (forming nouns from verbs with the sense of ‘person or thing which does’).

Noun

feòil-itheadair m (genitive singular feòil-itheadair, plural feòil-itheadairean)

1. carnivore

Antonyms

• lus-itheadair

Related terms

• feòil-itheach (“carnivorous”, adj)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “feòil-itheadair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN