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
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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