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Carnivorous
Carnivorous Car*niv"o*rous, a. [L. carnivorus; caro, carnis,
flesh + varare to devour.]
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied:
(a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the
tiger, dog, etc.;
(b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food;
(c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Meaning of Carnivorous from wikipedia
- and they are so-named
because most
member species in the
group have a
carnivorous diet, but the
similarity of the name of the
order and the name of the...
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Carnivorous plants are
plants that
derive some or most of
their nutrients from
trapping and
consuming animals or protozoans,
typically insects and other...
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generally classed as a
group of
saurischian dinosaurs. They were
ancestrally carnivorous,
although a
number of
theropod groups evolved to
become herbivores and...
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Birds of prey or
predatory birds, also
known as raptors, are
hypercarnivorous bird
species that
actively hunt and feed on
other vertebrates (mainly mammals...
- with choanocytes,
cells with whip-like flagella.: 29 However, a few
carnivorous sponges have lost
these water flow
systems and the choanocytes.: 39 ...
- A
carnivorous fungus or
predaceous fungus is a
fungus that
derives some or most of its
nutrients from
trapping and
eating microscopic or
other minute...
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leeches feed on blood; the Erpobdelliformes,
freshwater or amphibious, are
carnivorous and
equipped with a
relatively large,
toothless mouth to
ingest insect...
- The
Venus flytrap (Dionaea musci****) is a
carnivorous plant native to the
temperate and
subtropical wetlands of
North Carolina and
South Carolina, on...
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Carnivorous is a 2020
album by
British space rock band Hawkwind,
released under the name
Hawkwind Light Orchestra. The
album contains songs inspired by...
