carniferous

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Adjective[edit]

carniferous (comparative more carniferous, superlative most carniferous)

  1. Obsolete form of carnivorous.
    • 1762, C. F. Noble, A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748, page 89:
      […] naked dead bodies hanging on trees, some by the heels, and others by the neck or shoulders, and all the bodies picked or torn by carniferous birds.
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