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

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