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feeding on animals- Carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting insects.
carnivorous = feeding on animals
- the lion and other carnivorous animals
- I hoped that Polyphemus did not also keep carnivorous mountain goats.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- The bare idea of this is no doubt horribly repulsive to us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.H.G. Wells -- The War Of The Worlds
- A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal?Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- The look in his eyes as he felt the keen edge and glared at me was positively carnivorous.London, Jack -- The Sea Wolf
- He wouldn't say much by phone but I gather he was mixed up with a carnivorous Fraulein and got over the border almost sans calottes.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- 'The rat,' said O'Brien, still addressing his invisible audience, 'although a rodent, is carnivorous.George Orwell -- 1984
- The Grand Inquisitor was carnivorous and full of murder.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- Deer, antelope, turkey, with their carnivorous attendants, panthers, wildcats, and wolves, had not yet been molested by white hunters.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- She smacked a carnivorous horse in the snout with the butt of her sword and sent the monster stampeding through the crowd.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- A diet that is almost purely carnivorous.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- And then, like a carnivorous flower, we are physically attractive to our prey.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- I yell as the carnivorous waves come for me.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal?Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Carnivorous shape-shifters who live secretly among humans.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- They were also carnivorous, and capable of frenzy.William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
carnivorous = meat-eating