Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CAR-NIV'O-ROUS
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CAR-NIV'O-ROUS, a. [L. caro, flesh, and voro, to eat.]
Eating or feeding on flesh; an epithet applied to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the lion, tiger, dog, wolf, &c.
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