All 14 Uses
carnivorous
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Tunnel In the Sky
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- But it did prove that there were carnivores around and it behooved him to be careful if he did not want to have jackals and vultures arguing over the leavings!†
Chpt 3carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- But, even with part of his mind counting paces and watching a compass and a much larger part watching for carnivores, snakes, and other hazards, Rod still could enjoy the day and place.†
Chpt 3
- It was interlaced with game paths but he avoided these on the assumption that carnivores might lie waiting for lunch to come down the path-Rod had no wish to volunteer.†
Chpt 3
- He knew, from his own narrow brushes and from kills left half-eaten on the ground, that there were carnivores around even though he had never had a good look at one.†
Chpt 4
- So far as he knew there were no carnivorous tree-climbers large enough to tackle a man, but he could not be certain; he slept with one eye open.†
Chpt 4 *carnivorous = meat-eating
- The behavior of this herd caused him to suspect that there must be carnivores that hunted as he was now hunting, even though he had had the good fortune not to tangle with one.†
Chpt 4carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- A wide variety of antelope-type game, carnivores to feed on them— I've seen a couple of lions and—†
Chpt 5
- From habit he glanced around, sizing up possible cover for carnivores and figuring escape routes back into the kraal, but his alertness was not conscious as there seemed no danger in the open so near other people.†
Chpt 9
- It was generally agreed that the leonine monster was the "stobor" they had been warned against, although a minority favored a smaller carnivore which was faster, trickier, and more likely to attack a man.†
Chpt 11carnivore = an animal that eats only meat
- One carnivore was not considered for the honor.†
Chpt 11
- Carnivores seemed to have become scarcer.†
Chpt 13carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- But the first real indication of peculiar seasonal habits of native fauna came from a very minor carnivore.†
Chpt 13carnivore = an animal that eats only meat
- There had already been half a dozen casualties— no deaths but bites and slashings, almost all from the little carnivores contemptuously known as dopy joes.†
Chpt 13carnivores = animals that eat only meat
- Little carnivores heavy in front, about the size of a tom cat and eight times as nasty?†
Chpt 15
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)