carnivora

Noun

carnivora pl (plural only)

1. (plural, plural-only) Carnivorans.
   • Naturalists try to arrange the species, genera, and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System. But what is meant by this system? Some authors look at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and fer separating those which are most...1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs.”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John...
   • The minds of the great carnivora are therefore little exercised in nature, and do not grow; and, accustomed to power and to seeing all the denizens of the forest quail before them, they do not know what it is to feel a sense of help needed or of favors received.1891 December, Ernest Ingersoll, “Animal Training and Animal Intelligence”, in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume XXXII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie’s Publishing House, […], →ISSN...