Related to or containing meat; carnivorous or flesh-eating in nature.
From Latin 'carnicus,' derived from 'caro' (flesh or meat). This learned adjective preserves the Latin root that underlies many English words about meat and flesh.
Carnic is a rare word, which makes it a linguistic fossil—it shows how educated people once had multiple ways to talk about meat (carnic, carnivorous, carnal), but only some survived into modern English.
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