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carnivorous

adjective as in eating animal flesh

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The only survivor is his younger sister, Nezuko, who has been turned into an oni, a carnivorous demon who usually subsists on a diet of humans and is averse to sunlight.

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Scattered over the bean base, it adds weight and richness, the carnivorous note that makes this dip feel like dinner, not just an appetizer.

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Tyrannosauroids are the superfamily of carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on two legs.

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Keep an eye out for California pitcher plant, a native carnivorous plant.

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A naked mole rat is seen in a display enclosure of a new building for small mammals, birds, carnivorous plants and insectivorous animals at the zoological-botanical garden in Stuttgart.

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