carnivora

From Latin carnivora.

carnivora pl (plural only)

1. Carnivorans.
   • 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 Murray, […], →OCLC, page 413:

     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 unlike; or as an artificial means for enunciating, as briefly as possible, general propositions,—that is, by one sentence to give the characters common, for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then by adding a single sentence, a full description is given of each kind of dog.

   • 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, →OCLC, pages 728–730:

     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.

   • 1957, Joy Packer, “Something to Fear”, in The Moon by Night: A Novel, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 84:

     The carnivora are the gangsters round here, but man is still the arch criminal—Public Enemy Number One.

   • 2014, Rob Cook, “Planet Beyond the Farthest Symptoms”, in Asking My Miver for Forgiveness, New York, N.Y.: Rain Mountain Press, →ISBN, page 32:

     The word snow deepening all night, the room devours and replicates its tired carnivora, its surface antigens, a troubled sleep stranded at a chair and a man carrying an infinity of blindfold nests inside him, a novendecillion bile conduits.

• IPA^(key): /karˈni.vo.ra/
• Rhymes: -ivora
• Hyphenation: car‧nì‧vo‧ra

carnivora f (plural carnivore)

1. female equivalent of carnivoro (“carnivore; man-eater”)

carnivora f sg

1. feminine singular of carnivoro

• ancorarvi, arroncavi, rincaravo, rincorava

carnivora

1. inflection of carnivorus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

carnivorā

1. ablative feminine singular of carnivorus

• "carnivora", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)