Carnivorous: alternatives and connections

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as,…

To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though…

The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is…

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret fo…

A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and oth…

an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them…

To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ra…

The act or habit of eating earth. See Dirt eating, under Dirt.

One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feed…