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Definition of carnivore:

  • (noun) a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal;
  • (noun) any animal that feeds on flesh;

Sentence Examples:

Their mere presence seemed to have been enough for the carnivores, because they all vanished.

The appearance of fruit on early Tertiary trees and the multiplication of carnivores explain this.

This phenomenon is, as Cope points out, observed in Marsupials, Rodents, Insectivores, Carnivores, and Ungulates.

He is powerful and agile; the swiftest and most deadly of all the smaller forest carnivores.

However, the comparative abundance of this carnivore has not resulted in a better understanding of it.

And we saw that a similar belief in respect of certain carnivores probably had a similar origin.

He walked carefully around the demonstration bench, staying a good five meters away from the potential carnivore.

It seems to have lived on small food, and been itself a rich diet to the larger carnivores.

The brain is large, and in quantity and amount of convolution exceeds that of the land Carnivores.

Carnivores, both great and small, have teeth and claws with which to defend themselves against attack.

The function of these teeth is to catch and hold other animals, for carnivores are the predators.

And from his departure the quality of the correspondence of these two larger carnivores began to change.

Behind them, hastening the course of their evolution, improving their speed, arms, and armor, is the inevitable carnivore.

He played with him terribly as a carnivore plays with its victim in the instant before the kill.

The cries of the carnivores at night fill me with a dread so tangible that I am in actual pain.

He moved with a heavy, padding gait, like a large carnivore whose natural grace is revealed only at top speed.

A man would not have to slay a carnivore when he could chase it away in fright, with its ears splitting.

The fox and wolf are like instances of carnivores being able to endure great variations in temperature without being specifically modified.

Two carnivores, in a time of scarcity of food, may be truly said to struggle with each other for maintenance of life.

Seals are often regarded as belonging to this order, but their relation to the rest of the carnivores is very doubtful.

Here he was, a nocturnal carnivore, caged with many of his own kind in a vehicle moving through space or water.

The great carnivores cannot exist out of regions where there are creatures large enough and numerous enough to serve for prey.

This tactic would not be of much value as an escape from carnivores, but it could be effective against birds of prey.

Every large carnivore will snap at the chance to take one, and even the golden eagle has been known to kill them.

A starving carnivore in a land lacking the normal sounds of small birds and animal life, in a valley used as a trap.

From the Yukon to Patagonia, this elusive carnivore can still be found in considerable numbers in spite of aggressive campaigns against it.

It is assumed that these animals had a very low order of intelligence when compared to the more advanced carnivores of today.

Young carnivores, for instance, which can be handled freely and are affectionate, very seldom can be touched whilst they are feeding.

Fifty million years earlier the ancestor of the cat family roamed the earth, and he is the ancestor of all present-day carnivores.

Its hair ought to be worn in the proper backward or upward slope such as other bears, dogs and small carnivores display.

It was the coming of the carnivores, therefore, that accelerated the development of brain matter, and started the process which created man.

Wildlife investigators have assembled a mass of evidence indicating that it is not the ordinary habit of these carnivores to feed regularly on domestic stock.

That a carnivore requiring so much food as the polar bear can maintain itself on the frozen polar sea is one of the marvels of adaptation to environment.

His ape brain would warn him, but would his human strength avail in case of necessity, in case of attack by another ape, or a four-footed carnivore?

For there can be little doubt that to these brave little carnivores here the universe is chiefly known as a collective bundle of odors, simultaneous or consecutive.

Wild sheep live in flocks, as a rule in cold and mountainous districts; and some organization is necessary if they are not to be at the mercy of savage carnivores.

His mouth, too, was narrow, and his teeth were narrow, one of the upper teeth at each side like the tooth of a carnivore, longer than its fellows.

Some of them were large vegetarian animals, more than twelve feet in length; others were carnivores with very powerful heads and teeth as formidable as those of the tiger.

I fired at the carnivore, which the ferocious brute responded to by a loud roar, then, dragging its prey a distance of about fifty yards, it suddenly made off.

With them there was no inherited instinct or disposition, and no tradition or instruction, as there is with the true carnivores: they depended solely on observation, memory, inference.

In and out among all their stiffly planted legs ran the lesser carnivores and the canines, snapping and worrying at the things creeping through the grass.

McLaughlin had agreed that the ledge where the paleontologist had been left was inaccessible to the larger carnivores, and had merely issued a final warning about poisonous "lizards."

The Carnivores, however, are only one large group of Quadrupeds: there are many others, such as the Rodents, Ungulates, Cetacea, etc., and all of these possess common characters.

The evidence is less abundant, but the characters of the Carnivores consist so obviously of adaptations to their habits and diet that we have little difficulty in imagining their evolution.

A streak of flame passed beside the leaping carnivore, exploding into a white-hot blossom of blazing gas as it contacted the pile of dirt on the far side of the pit.

In many carnivores, especially nocturnal ones, the slit is vertical, and this form of opening seems adapted to a feeble light, for it is found in the owl, among birds.

We suppose that nine persons out of ten, if asked to give three common examples of land Carnivores, would, almost without hesitation, name the Cat, the Dog, and the Bear.

There was just enough distance to cover to let each one realize that he had no idea how long the carnivore had been inside, and what the "scraping" sound might have been.

The carnivore is provided with the means to dispose of such poisonous salts as are contained in and are produced by the ingestion of animal flesh, while the human system is not so provided.

One asks at once the reason for such an unexpected trend of the hair on a small area, when the carnivores in other groups have a uniform slope towards the head from their more pointed muzzles.