carnivorous
adjective
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The order of mammals that Linnaeus named the Carnivora includes such families as the dogs, the bears, the raccoons, the weasels, the hyenas, the cats, and the seals. Most carnivores eat only meat in the wild, but some have varied diets; some bears, for instance, normally eat far more vegetation than meat. Carnivores have powerful jaws and complex teeth, and most are highly intelligent. Humans, like their ape cousins, are basically omnivores.
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Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Puffins are carnivorous birds that primarily eat small fish, including herring, hake, sand eels, and capelin.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
The fire also swept through parts of the island that have rare habitats for sensitive plant and animal species found nowhere else, such as the endangered San Clemente loggerhead shrike, a carnivorous songbird.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
But starting in the 1990s, a series of bombshell fossil finds established that feathers were widespread among several lineages of the bipedal, carnivorous dinosaurs known as theropods and that birds had inherited these structures from their theropod ancestors.
—Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Carnivorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnivorous. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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