All 12 Uses
carnivorous
in
Life of Pi
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- I thought lions were carnivores.†
Chpt 5-8carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- I don't know where Father got the idea that his youngest son was itching to step into a cage with a ferocious carnivore.†
Chpt 5-8carnivore = an animal that eats only meat
- The discovery that a wild carnivore was free in their midst created an uproar among the citizens of Zurich.†
Chpt 9-12
- He marvelled at everything, at how to tall trees came tall giraffes, how carnivores were supplied with herbivores and herbivores with grass, how some creatures crowded the day and others the night, how some that needed sharp beaks had sharp beaks and others that needed limber limbs had limber limbs.†
Chpt 29-32carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- He was a fierce, 450-pound carnivore.†
Chpt 41-44carnivore = an animal that eats only meat
- But it seemed to me highly improbable, if not totally incredible, that when brought together these frugiv-orous tree-dwellers and carnivorous savannah-dwellers would so radically carve out their niches as to pay no attention to each other.†
Chpt 45-48 *carnivorous = meat-eating
- The flame-coloured carnivore emerged from beneath the tarpaulin and made for the hyena.†
Chpt 53-56carnivore = an animal that eats only meat
- The carnivorous rascal.†
Chpt 89-92carnivorous = meat-eating
- A meerkat is a small South African mammal related to the mongoose; in other words, a carnivorous burrower, a foot long and weighing two pounds when mature, slender and weasel-like in build, with a pointed snout, eyes sitting squarely at the front of its face, short legs, paws with four toes and long, non-retractile claws, and an eight-inch tail.†
Chpt 89-92
- The island was carnivorous.†
Chpt 89-92
- The trees were carnivorous too, but at a much lower level of acidity, safe enough to stay in for the night while the rest of the island seethed.†
Chpt 89-92
- Carnivorous trees?†
Chpt 97-100
Definitions:
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(1)
(carnivorous) of an animal that primarily eats meatCarnivorous animals (carnivores) are often contrasted to herbivores (plant-eating animals) and omnivores (animals that eat both meat and plants).
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)