BioConcepts

carnivorousσαρκόφαγος (gr.); carnivorus (lat.); karnivor (ger.)

• Eating or feeding on flesh; applied to those animals (or plants) which naturally prey on (other) animals, and spec. to the order CARNIVORA. (OED 2011)
  category nutrition

  c. -350 (BC)

  Καὶ τὰ μὲν σαρκοφάγα, τὰ δὲ καρποφάγα, τὰ δὲ παμφάγα, τὰ δ’ ἰδιότροφα [some are carnivorous, some frugivorous, others omnivorous; some have a diet peculiar to themselves]

  Aristotle (c. 350 BC). Historia animalium (transl. by A.L. Peck 1965) 488a14-15; cf. 594a12; 628b33-629a1; cf. id. De partibus animalium 662b1.

  ca. 79

  omnia carnivora sunt

  Plinius, Naturalis historia 9, 78; cf. 10; 199.

  1589

  Which liveth on flesh. Carnivorus

  Rider, J. (1589). Bibliotheca Scholastica: [flesh].

  1603

  Silurus […] carnivorus est

  Schwenckfeld, K. (1603). Theriotropheum Silesiae, in quo animalium, hoc est quadrupedum, reptilium, avium, piscium, insectorum natura, vis & usus 6 libris perstringitur: 444-5.

  1618

  alia animalia sunt carnivora, alia herbivora

  Sennert, D. (1618). Epitome naturalis scientiae: 572 (7, 10).

  1646

  Many there are [...] which eate no salt at all, as all carnivorous animals

  Browne, T. (1646). Pseudodoxia epidemica: 205 (IV,10).

  1654

  Carnivora

  Bravo de Sobremonte Ramirez, G. (1654). Resolutiones medicae. practicis pro curandis febribus. In: Operum medicinalium, vol. 5 (Lyon 1684): 67; engl.: Bennett, (1830). The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated, vol. 1: 99.

  1982

  carnivorous Flesh eating; creophagous; sarcophagous; carnivorc, carnivory.    

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 41.