Meaning of carnivora | Babel Free

Definitions

Carnivorans.

plural, plural-only

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Examples

“Naturalists try⟳ to arrange⟳ the species, genera, and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System. But what is meant by this system? Some authors look⟳ at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and fer separating those which are most unlike; or as an artificial means for enunciating, as briefly as possible, general propositions,—that is, by one sentence to give⟳ the characters common, for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then by adding a single sentence, a full description is given of each kind of dog.”

“The minds of the great carnivora are therefore little exercised in nature, and do not grow⟳; and, accustomed to power and to seeing all the denizens of the forest quail before them, they do not know⟳ what it is to feel⟳ a sense⟳ of help⟳ needed or of favors received.”

“The carnivora are the gangsters round here, but man is still the arch criminal—Public Enemy Number⟳ One.”

“The word snow⟳ deepening all night, the room devours and replicates its tired carnivora, its surface antigens, a troubled sleep⟳ stranded at a chair and a man carrying an infinity of blindfold nests inside him, a novendecillion bile conduits.”

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