Word Meanings - CARNIVOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Suppose
  To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustrat
• Tiger's-foot
  A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
• Animalculism
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
• Applicable
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
• Destroyable
  Destructible.
• Fleshhood
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
• Supposeer
  One who supposes.
• Tissue
  A woven fabric.
• Animalculist
  One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
• Applicancy
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• Destroyer
  One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• Fleshiness
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.
• Supposition
  The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
• Tissued
  of Tissue
• Absorbed
  of Absorb
• Animalcula
  of Animalculum
• Applicant
  One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.
• Fleshings
  Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers.
• Suppositional
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.

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