Crossword clues for carnivorous
carnivorous
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carnivorous \Car*niv"o*rous\, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis, flesh + varare to devour.] Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied:
to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.;
to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food;
to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora. 2 predatory or flesh eating. 3 (context botany English) insectivorous: capable of trapping insects and absorbing nutrient from them.
WordNet
adj. relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals"
(used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" [ant: herbivorous, omnivorous, insectivorous]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "carnivorous".
I expect a startling new lifeform to emerge imminently, preferably a carnivorous phage that preys on biotechnical garments and their wearers.
It was bipedalism which also freed the hands to make stone tools, which helped early man change his diet to a carnivorous one which, in providing much more calorie-rich food, enabled further brain growth.
The sun winked on polished bright-work, the mace-studs and hackamore bosals that left the jaws of the carnivorous mounts free to raven and tear.
Akin to the vegetable-feeding sauebas are the carnivorous ecitons, or foraging ants, of which Bates found ten distinct species.
It is reasonable to speculate that these skull ornaments of the herbivorous ceratopsians functioned as protective devices against the attacks of carnivorous predators or in aggressive confrontations between individual ceratopsians themselves.
The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animal became, the more places they would be enabled to occupy.
Nearly all of it has some animal attributes and nearly all of it is carnivorous, the smaller plants devouring insects, the larger, in turn, depending upon the larger animals for sustenance on up to the maneaters such as I had encountered and those which Han Du said caught and devoured even the hugest animals that exist upon this strange planet.
Not only do they heat their supposedly raw food higher than a hundred and eighteen degrees, but their mesclun mix includes shoots from carnivorous plants.
But at night even humble carnivorous protomammals must have posed a real threat to the cold-immobilized reptiles, and particularly to their eggs.
My greatest danger lay in the hideous reptilia whose low nervous organizations permitted their carnivorous instincts to function for several minutes after they had ceased to live.
Concavity has apparently produced teratogenic clouds, carnivorous flora, and feral hamsters.
In his navy blue suit, white shirt, and yellow bowtie, Doltmeer looked strangely proper to be gently stuffing dead flies into the mouths of carnivorous plants.
These crocodiles are carnivorous, and they require fresh meat in order to survive.
It will have to be a choice between the carnivorous crocodiles or their natural source of food.
To her the most ferocious flying creature was of much less immediate peril than the predators who might lurk under these cycads, the scorpions and spiders and ever-ravenous carnivorous reptiles, including the many, many small and savage dinosaur species.