different between carnivorous vs dasyurid

English

From Latin carnivorus (“flesh-eating”)

carnivorous (comparative more carnivorous, superlative most carnivorous)

Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
Predatory or flesh-eating.
(botany) Insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.

dasyurid (plural dasyurids)

A member of the family Dasyuridae, comprising carnivorous marsupials.
- 1998, Terence Lindsey, Mammals of Australia, New Holland 2004, p. 22:
  The Tasmanian Devil and the several species of quolls are by far the largest of the dasyurids, but the group is very diverse, and includes about 30 species of small insect-eaters, some not a lot bigger than a mouse.

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