(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.
Omnivorous
Definition:
(a.) All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zool.), eating both animal and vegetable food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homocysteine thiolactone metabolism differs in guinea pig, an herbivorous species, and in rat, an omnivorous species.
(2) To study the contributions of genetics to food selection in an omnivorous species, rats of two strains and rats derived from reciprocal crosses of the two strains were compared.
(3) Significant VFA, however, are now known to be produced in omnivorous species, such as pigs and humans.
(4) At the end of the supplementation period there was a decrease in diastolic blood pressure of 1.4 mm Hg (p less than 0.10) and an unexpected increase in systolic blood pressure of 2.1 mm Hg (p less than 0.01) in the omnivores.
(5) Omnivores consumed the least fibre (23 g), vegetarians significantly more (37 g) and vegans the most (47 g).
(6) Information on food intake during weaning was collected as part of a mixed-longitudinal study on the nutritional status and growth of the 1985 Dutch birth cohort of infants on macrobiotic diets (n = 53) and a matched control group on omnivorous diets (m = 57).
(7) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(8) Reduced risks for chronic degenerative diseases can also be achieved by manipulations of omnivorous diets and lifestyles.
(9) Vs and LOVs consumed significantly more fiber than did the omnivores, whereas NVs and LOVs consumed more saturated fatty acids than did Vs.
(10) The mean phytate:zinc and phytate X calcium:zinc millimolar ratios of American omnivorous diets in the present study were less than 10 and 200, respectively.
(11) Intakes of dietary fibre, vitamin C and folate were greater and the proportion of energy derived from fat was lower in the vegetarians than in the omnivores.
(12) We measured plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels, platelet function, platelet fatty acid levels, and platelet active prostaglandins in ten strict vegetarians (vegans), 15 lactovegetarians, and 25 age- and sex-matched omnivorous controls.
(13) After the administration of tritiated chondroitin sulfate (CS) by oral and intramuscular route, the distribution of radioactivity was investigated in two opportunist omnivorous animals, namely the rat and the dog.
(14) Current estimates are that VFA contribute approximately 70% to the caloric requirements of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle, approximately 10% for humans, and approximately 20-30% for several other omnivorous or herbivorous animals.
(15) But let's be clear that encryption is not the solution, probably only a speed bump to the NSA's omnivorous ingesting.
(16) The blood iron, vitamin B-12, and folate status of the 1985 birth cohort of Dutch infants aged 10.1-20.4 mo fed macrobiotic diets (n = 50) and matched omnivorous control infants (n = 57) was measured.
(17) There is considerable disagreement as to whether food availability entrains circadian activity rhythms in omnivorous laboratory rodents.
(18) Cell-free extracts were prepared from mixed fecal anaerobic bacteria grown from stools of 14 vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventists, 16 omnivorous control subjects, and eight patients recently diagnosed with cancer of the large bowel.
(19) These results suggest that although the Korean tree squirrel is a herbivorous rodent, the distribution pattern of its gastro-entero-endocrine cells is rather similar to that reported for omnivorous animals.
(20) The dog has a requirement for arginine intermediate between the cat and the rat, which is consistent with the dog having an omnivorous diet during its evolution.