Already, fast food chains are offering plant-based burgers that routinely wow the most inveterate carnivores, including newspaper food writers.
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Quickly eating a lot of food can be useful for carnivores when food is scarce.
When it comes to downing hot dogs, science says there’s a limit|Jonathan Lambert|August 7, 2020|Science News For Students
Eating large quantities of food quickly can be a useful strategy for carnivores when food is scarce.
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This lets the team see how the various carnivores are moving around.
Conservation is going to the dogs|Alison Pearce Stevens|April 2, 2020|Science News For Students
In Area D the child's right foot bones were discovered with "carnivore damage."
Did They Get Her?|Diane Dimond|June 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But I learned that though I am a carnivore yet I have not the pluck to be a vulture.
The Sea and the Jungle|H. M. Tomlinson
But the carnivore does not carry its food to its mouth, and the cat carries her kittens in her mouth and not with her paws.
Parenthood and Race Culture|Caleb Williams Saleeby
That the carnivore may live herbivores must die; and that its young may be reared the young of weaker creatures must be orphaned.
The Data of Ethics|Herbert Spencer
It was the reek of a skunk, stalked by a carnivore and defending itself as skunks do.
Operation Terror|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The molars differ from those of any other Carnivore in the much greater size of the first molars than of the last premolars.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
British Dictionary definitions for carnivore
carnivore
/ (ˈkɑːnɪˌvɔː) /
noun
any placental mammal of the order Carnivora, typically having large pointed canine teeth and sharp molars and premolars, specialized for eating flesh. The order includes cats, dogs, bears, raccoons, hyenas, civets, and weasels
any other animal or any plant that feeds on animals
cougar, leopard, cub, lynx, feline, cat, jaguar, beast of prey
Cultural definitions for carnivore
carnivore
[ (kahr-nuh-vawr) ]
A living thing that eats meat. Among mammals, there is an order of carnivores, including primarily meat-eating animals such as tigers and dogs. Some plants, such as the Venus's-flytrap, are carnivores.
An animal that feeds chiefly on the flesh of other animals. Carnivores include predators such as lions and alligators, and scavengers such as hyenas and vultures. In a food chain, carnivores are either secondary or tertiary consumers. Compare detritivoreherbivore.
Any of various generally meat-eating mammals of the order Carnivora. Carnivores have large, sharp canine teeth and large brains, and the musculoskeletal structure of their forelimbs permits great flexibility for springing at prey. Many carnivores remain in and defend a single territory. Dogs, cats, bears, weasels, raccoons, hyenas, and (according to some classifications) seals and walruses are all carnivores.
A plant that eats insects, such as a Venus flytrap.