Carnivorous
[kɑː'nɪv(ə)rəs] or [kɑrˈnɪvərəs]
Definition
(adj.) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; 'carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of carnivores; 'the lion and other carnivorous animals' .
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Edited by Cecilia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Flesh-eating.
Typist: Morton
Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian his heirs and assigns.
Inputed by Edna
Examples
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Take the case of a carnivorous quadruped, of which the number that can be supported in any country has long ago arrived at its full average. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The earliest birds seem to have been carnivorous divers and water birds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But its general shape must be what I have indicated, and it can run up a curtain, and it is carnivorous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, we need new blood and new money--and I hear she's still very good-looking, the carnivorous old lady declared. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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