Carnivorous

(adj.) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; 'carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects' .

(adj.) relating to or characteristic of carnivores; 'the lion and other carnivorous animals' .

编辑:帕梅拉

• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Take the case of a carnivorous quadruped, of which the number that can be supported in any country has long ago arrived at its full average. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The earliest birds seem to have been carnivorous divers and water birds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But its general shape must be what I have indicated, and it can run up a curtain, and it is carnivorous. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Well, we need new blood and new money--and I hear she's still very good-looking, the carnivorous old lady declared. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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