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carnivorous

[kahr-niv-er-uhs] / kɑrˈnɪv ər əs /
ADJECTIVE
eating animal flesh
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Carnivorous plants have long captured popular imagination, portrayed to exaggeration in cult classics such as The Addams Family and Little Shop of Horrors as meat-eating monsters.

From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024

Carnivorous dinosaurs lived in ecosystems rich with both living and dead prey.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Carnivorous members of the audience can make it at home.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Carnivorous plants’ peculiar strategies for snagging live prey have long captured the public imagination.

From Scientific American • Nov. 25, 2022

Whilst herbivorous animals abounded during the Post-Pliocene, we have ample evidence of the coexistence with them of a number of Carnivorous forms, both in the New and the Old World.

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne




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