Carni'vorous. adj. [from carnis and voro.] Flesh-eating; that of which flesh is the proper food.
In birds there is no mastication or comminution of the meat in the mouth; but in such as are not carnivorous, it is immediately swallowed into the crop or crow. Ray on the Creation.
Man is by his frame, as well as his appetite, a carnivorous animal. Arbuthnot on Aliments.
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