Usage examples "carnivorous":
- Nor need our carnivorous friends be afraid of it. - "New Vegetarian Dishes", Mrs. Bowdich.
- Laramie, with a tread creditable to a cat- and a stealth natural to most carnivorous animals- closed the door without breaking her heavy breathing. - "Laramie Holds the Range", Frank H. Spearman.
- The adult beetle is also purely carnivorous, but is perhaps not quite so rapacious. - "Amateur Fish Culture", Charles Edward Walker.