Carnivorous [adjective]

Humans can’t eat a completely carnivorous diet because of the liver’s ability to generate only part of our energy needs from protein.

That suggests that the use of feathers for complex display purposes may have a very ancient history within the carnivorous dinosaurs.

The reptiles are primarily carnivorous, and it is not uncommon for them to seek out small pets as a source of food along with other mammals — although fatal attacks on humans are relatively rare.

It is evident that many of them might readily become carnivorous to a large extent under suitable conditions.

Among the carnivorous mammals the social dog or wolf tribe displays the intelligent habit of mutual aid.

The Ternat bats are carnivorous animals, voracious, and possessed of an appetite for every thing that offers.

These baboons though mischievious and ferocious, are not carnivorous; they principally feed upon fruits, roots, and corn.

They are, indeed, among our most valuable sea scavengers, although they are carnivorous hunters as well.

He is an almost wholly carnivorous animal, his food consisting of fishes and seals, which he skillfully captures.

Of course, I should, said the new young man,-159- man is nothing but a carnivorous animal.