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Definition of carnivore:

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

Sentence Examples:

The hyenas were impatient for the carnivores.

There were also carnivores to fatten on the herbivores.

Tigers and other carnivore prowled in the forests.

There are carnivores, herbivores and scavengers among them.

Few feed as terminal carnivores, and relatively few are scavengers.

As far as possible, he averred, he would eliminate all carnivores.

The coyote is the dominant carnivore of the coastal sage flats.

The carnivore was crouching to spring as Tarzan discovered the tragic tableau.

That's the trouble with being a vegetable eater in a galaxy of carnivores.

Herbivores starve, and then the carnivores that feed on the herbivores starve.

The humerus resembles that of a Carnivore rather than that of an Ungulate.

It is the lot of the jackals of life to be devoured by the carnivore.

They are but poorly equipped to actively resist attack by the larger carnivores.

The fierce carnivore, on the contrary, is prevented by his natural ferocity from herding.

Otters are cosmopolitan in their tastes; being carnivores, they will prey on many species.

It was not until we neared our destination that the country became overrun with carnivores.

Most common enemies are badgers, coyotes, bears, foxes, weasels, hawks and most small carnivores.

Turkeys, it is said, were daily supplied in large numbers to the carnivores of his menagerie.

The boy and the ape growled menacingly in chorus and the carnivore moved on.

The aquatic branch of the Carnivores (seals, walruses, etc.) is little represented in the Tertiary record.

It was the reek of a skunk, stalked by a carnivore and defending itself as skunks do.

Again, the only carnivores to whom they seem to have supplied food were reptiles of their own race.

It was the odor of the carnivore that terrified her, and the effect was purely instinctive.

Although the cougar is a large and powerful carnivore it almost never makes unprovoked attacks upon man.

This is especially true of certain game species and carnivores whose distribution has been altered by man.

The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.

Weasels are the only carnivores which change from the brown of summer to a white winter coat.

It is more subtle in its operation but of the same order of ruthlessness as the ravages of a carnivore.

It was a porcupine, prudently curled up into a spiky ball and placidly defying all carnivores, including men.

In this way the great enemies of the individual herbivore are not the carnivores, but the other herbivores.

The raccoon is the most abundant carnivore of the oak woodland, being especially common in the riparian habitat.

The seals and walruses, however, which are carnivores adapted to living in water, have no such clipping teeth.

The carnivore raised its head to snarl at her, and she gripped the sword in both hands and stabbed.

The Canada lynx is notable for the beauty of its head, one of the most striking among all our carnivores.

There was but one single outcry in the forest that sounded like the shriek of a creature seized by a carnivore.

This and the primeval urge to dig and bury lurked fiercely in the breast of the newly erect carnivore, the man child.

Enough if we see more or less clearly how the changes in the face of the earth and the rise of its successive dynasties of carnivores have stimulated living things to higher and higher levels in the primitive ocean.

Depending chiefly upon sight and hearing, he had to learn by observation, and to remember, and to apply all and more than all that the carnivore knows and does instinctively, or learns by following its mother.

From the outset the human pack must have come into competition with the true carnivores, must have defended itself against them, may have discovered that attack was the safest defense, and may have been victorious even without weapons.

He cried, and at the same instant two figures shot from the mouth of the shaft and, locked tightly in one another's embrace, rolled to the floor of the pit directly in the path of the charging carnivores.

Tarzan of the Apes drank on, but from the corners of his gray eyes he watched the great brute's every move until he had disappeared from view, and, after, his keen ears marked the movements of the carnivore.

The constant evolution of more effective types of carnivores and their spread into new regions, the continuous changes in the distribution of land and water, the struggle for food in a growing population, and a dozen other causes, are ever at work.

The mothers show marked affection to the young, but it would seem to be the business of the young one rather to follow and stick to the mother than for the mother, as amongst the carnivores, to take the lead in the affections.