Adjective:

புலால் உண்கிற (புலால் உண்ணும் விலங்கு),

carnivorous தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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carnivorous's Usage Examples:

In habits the animal was cursorial and herbivorous, or possibly carnivorous.

The skull is conical, stout and heavy, and the teeth, although sharper and less rounded than those of badgers, are less suited to a carnivorous diet than those of stoats, weasels and martens.

Beetles and larvae are frequently carnivorous in habit, hunting for small insects under stones, or pursuing the soft-skinned grubs of beetles and flies that bore in woody stems or succulent roots.

This carnivorous adaptation, in which the function is to hold and kill struggling animals, often of large size, attains its highest development in the cats (Felidae).

An ameba, however, does not feed entirely on plants it is also carnivorous feeding on tiny ciliates.

The teeth especially exemplify the carnivorous type in its highest condition of development.

In old males the eyes are overhung by a beetling penthouse of bone, the hinder half of the middle line of the skull bears a wall-like bony ridge for the attachment of the powerful jaw-muscles, and the tusks, or canines, are of monstrous size, recalling those of a carnivorous animal.

The integument of tailed and tailless batrachians is remarkable for the great abundance of follicular glands, of which there may be two kinds, each having a special secretion, which is always more or less acrid and irritating, and affords a means of defence against the attacks of many carnivorous animals.

Although feeding chiefly on roots, fruits and grain, it is also to some extent carnivorous, attacking and eating small quadrupeds, lizards and birds.

total 46 - and in having the teeth generally developed upon an insectivorous rather than a carnivorous pattern, the upper middle incisors being larger and inclined forward, the canines relatively smaller, and the molars with broad crowns, armed with prickly tubercles.

Parasitic or carnivorous.

Synonyms:

piscivorous, zoophagous, predaceous, flesh-eating, predacious, meat-eating,

Antonyms:

fruit-eating, unacquisitive, omnivorous, insectivorous, herbivorous,