Sentence Examples:
These crocodiles are carnivorous, and they require fresh meat in order to survive.
I will not allow any of my subjects to be threatened by any carnivorous crocodiles.
It will have to be a choice between the carnivorous crocodiles or their natural source of food.
Nevertheless, I can follow a worthy example, even though the exemplar be only a carnivorous bloom.
Although he is carnivorous, he will also eat vegetables, and when sickly he will nibble grass.
None of the carp are very carnivorous.
Like other carnivorous animals, an Englishman is always surly over his meals.
Then there began to multiply birds and beasts and kine, and sheep, and deer and all kinds of carnivorous animals.
The next moment he had paused, crouching suddenly like a carnivorous beast, balked of its prey.
The book came out too late in August for any chance of a mention in the September magazines, and at the dead time of year, when the very critics were thinking more of holiday innocence than of their carnivorous instincts.
Its face was awesome and unnatural, with its carnivorous eyes, frightful stiletto, and blood-sucking cavity.
In little barred cages was a collection of smaller carnivorous animals and rodents.
Its habits are carnivorous, and degenerate into cannibalism, as it preys on the weaker individuals of its own species.
Any one of the larger carnivorous dinosaurs would meet the case.
I venture to trust that we may have some future opportunity for the closer study of the carnivorous dinosaurs.
For the enemy is one which hunts for food, not for pleasure or excitement; and it is doubtful whether any carnivorous animal in a state of nature begins to seek after prey till driven to do so by hunger.
All carnivorous mammals are treated as vermin and are systematically destroyed.
Biting the earth with their teeth, and bathed in blood, these, with the crowns of their heads and bows and lower limbs crushed, laid themselves down on the field, supplying all carnivorous creatures with food.
On the third finger of the left hand, though, was a slight gleam amid the carnivorous dullness.
In these islands man is amphibious and carnivorous.
Its enemies, beside man, are the lynx, and other carnivorous animals, hawks, owls, and even the domestic cat.
In the dark and on all fours he resembled some carnivorous animal prowling amongst corpses.
The carnivorous grub is killed by honey.
The "eagle eye," and the carnivorous beak require no introduction to the menagerie, they belong there.
Even carnivorous animals nourish on a diet of nuts with other vegetable foods and cooked cereals.
Very few are terrestrial, even the carnivorous species being found clinging to branches and leaves.
Its carnivorous nature showed itself one day by its pouncing upon a tame pigeon.
This shows the carnivorous tendencies of these abominable pests.
Without the ministry of culinary fire, man could not gratify his carnivorous propensities.
Though a carnivorous animal, the Indian assured us that its flesh was very good eating.
He snarled, and his voice had in it a carnivorous note.
The dead being too numerous for the living to bury, became food for vermin and carnivorous birds.
Snakes are carnivorous and are capable of moving with great ease and swiftness notwithstanding their lack of limbs.
No dog accustomed to a flesh diet willingly leaves it for other food; the dog is a carnivorous animal.
The restorative process is sooner completed in the carnivorous than in the herbivorous tribes.
The fondness of the hog for this species of food proves that in a state of nature it is partially a carnivorous animal.
Habitually his diet is not carnivorous, but he will eat at times either carrion or living flesh.
The necessity for complete protein to maintain physical fitness is so great that animals by nature the farthest removed from the carnivorous class resort to flesh eating when this is the only source of the needed element.
The adult beetle is also purely carnivorous, but is perhaps not quite so rapacious.
It will be a sufficient warning to state the fact that they are all carnivorous, and their relative sizes is the only thing which will decide whether the beetle will eat the fish, or the fish the beetle.
I then observed that it had been settling on the dung of some carnivorous animal.
The males of carnivorous animals are already well armed, though to them special means of defense may be given through means of sexual selection, as the mane of the lion and the hooked jaw of the salmon.
The enemies of the bison are the carnivorous animals.
The carnivorous species were not remarkable for size; there were small leaping forms scarcely larger than rabbits.
Eddy says that "The beast and reptile made by Love and Wisdom were neither carnivorous nor poisonous."
Various theories have been started to explain how this parrot has become carnivorous.
This animal belongs to the herbivorous class but is more ferocious than any of the carnivorous species.
While it had become more difficult to find and capture food animals, he was at the same time in greater danger from carnivorous beasts, which were forced by partial starvation to overcome their dread of man.
Among the carnivorous mammals the social dog or wolf tribe displays the intelligent habit of mutual aid.
Carnivorous animals resembling tigers and hyenas found abundance of animal food.
We have seen that carnivorous animals are more fertile under confinement than most other mammals.
As though by a special misfortune, the snow had covered with its white carpet the heights of the chain, compelling those formidable, carnivorous beasts to descend a little lower for shelter in their dens.
They found no remarkable difference in the saliva of carnivorous and herbivorous animals.
What provision was made for the carnivorous animals, for lions, tigers, vultures, kites, and hawks?
The blood and breath of carnivorous animals emit an unpleasant odor, while those of vegetable eaters do not.
The child is perilously close to asking whether the animal is carnivorous or herbivorous.
Yet another peril lay in the fact that the stream was inhabited by the evil-minded, carnivorous crocodile.
At first there were neither huntsmen nor carnivorous animals to check this wonderful development.
We know him only as the most cunning, the most destructive, and unhappily the longest lived of all carnivorous beasts.
Frogs are carnivorous, and in the season of activity are likely to be very voracious.
The carnivorous quadrupeds are designated by a different generic term.
It is like saying that flesh eaters are carnivorous.
The mink is strictly a carnivorous animal, and always prefers fresh food.
As to animals taking bait, will say, I have never had much trouble in getting meat or carnivorous animals to take bait, but sometimes it is necessary to use a different bait than what they will take at other times.
Badgers are burrowing, carnivorous animals.
The mink is a small carnivorous animal, belonging to the weasel family.
The otter is a carnivorous animal, somewhat resembling the mink in appearance.
The diurnal carnivorous birds are either large, as the eagles and vultures, or small.
The grizzly bear, however, is chiefly carnivorous; while the polar bear is almost wholly so.
Though the coyote belongs to the flesh-eating class of animals, it is not strictly carnivorous.
The carnivorous larva is killed by honey.
Many people in Canada eat the flesh of lynx, but I draw the line on carnivorous animals.
This color is characteristic of carnivorous animals; in herbivorous forms it is yellow.
Hence, large carnivorous animals are scarce, leopards and two or three species of hyenas and jackals only being found.
They are not carnivorous, and subsist altogether on particular flowers and grass.
At present, we know that there exist large tribes of animals, called carnivorous, provided with organs expressly designed to enable them to destroy other animals, and of course to inflict on them violent and painful death.
He develops into a carnivorous and vegetable-eating animal, drinks an excessive quantity of bottled beer, and becomes subject to fits of weariness resembling the weakness that precedes physical sickness.
As these animals were growing upon it, there could be no doubt that they had their normal life and development at this depth, and since they are carnivorous, they tell also of the existence of other animals with them on which they feed.
This happiness should only belong to little people, who conceal themselves in islands, or between mountains, like rabbits who steal away from carnivorous animals, but at length are discovered and devoured.
As the hippopotamus is not carnivorous, this was an unexpected attack.
The next thing to be done after supper, was to light a torch and explore the recesses of the cave, lest it should be occupied by some carnivorous beasts, who might fancy a sleeping traveler for a night's meal.
Sometimes it is the herbage, but probably, the best of all is the presence of carnivorous animals and birds.
For certain signs had convinced him his fair and delicate companion was carnivorous, and must be nourished accordingly.
You see, carnivorous animals that live upon the flesh of their prey are apt to have their claws contaminated.
The tall scout had examined his hands and face thoroughly before the others of the party returned home, for he was not wholly ignorant concerning the possible results that sometimes follow wounds received through carnivorous animals.
Owl, owl, n. a carnivorous bird that seeks its food by night, noted for its howling or hooting noise.
Man preceded the carnivorous and ruminating animals, of whom the bodily temperature is lower than that of birds.
Leaving out of account the carnivorous animals, the brutes seem to satisfy their own wants without interfering with the satisfaction of others, and, except where the possession of females is concerned, to live in peace with each other.
It is carnivorous, fierce and intractable.
Animal marine, carnivorous; body spiral, with a compressed foot at the inferior base of the neck.
Of the carnivorous mammals the lynx only is eaten, and this when other food is scarce.
Voracious and formidable carnivorous animals waged a bloody war on the inoffensive herds.
They are, indeed, among our most valuable sea scavengers, although they are carnivorous hunters as well.
They are carnivorous, and some of them highly phosphorescent at night.
None of the carp family are carnivorous in any great degree.
He is an almost wholly carnivorous animal, his food consisting of fishes and seals, which he skillfully captures.
The adults are for the most part carnivorous, feeding on crabs, snails, and the like.
Here was one place where no carnivorous beetles roamed and where no spiders lurked.
Very few caterpillars have developed a thoroughly carnivorous habit.
Although carnivorous animals are fond of beaver flesh, they rarely take the useless trouble of digging into a house.