Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Cuvier's system of classification as altered by his editors, the flesh-eaters or third order of mammals, containing not only the Carnivora proper, as now understood, but also the Insectivora, the Chiroptera, and sundry carnivorous marsupials; the carnassiers. The marsupials were subsequently placed in a separate group, Marsupiata. Also called
Carnassia .
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Examples
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These large pots are then carried off in wagons to the carnaria, where their contents are emptied.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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Fortunately there were no carnaria in this vicinity.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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Fortunately there were no carnaria in this vicinity.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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These large pots are then carried off in wagons to the carnaria, where their contents are emptied.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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As her evidence was doubtful, I had recourse to the flesh fly (Sarcophaga carnaria).
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Two flies of the genus Sarcophaga frequent my slaughter yard: Sarcophaga carnaria and Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis, whose abdomen ends in a red speck.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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When the copious joint is in full process of dissolution, the pan becomes a puddle wherein wallow, in countless numbers, the grubs of the greenbottle and those of Sarcophaga carnaria, the Grey or checkered flesh fly, which are even mightier liquefiers.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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In the lower orders this increase is especially rapid, a single flesh-fly (Musca carnaria) producing 20,000 larvae, and these growing so quickly that they reach their full size in five days; hence the great
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The love of a human mother for her babe was anticipated by nearly every humbler mammal, the carnaria not excepted.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Quàm longum iter famelicus peregi! nudus, egenus, esuriens, perhorrescens, despectus, mendicans; sunt lacrymae rerum et mentem carnaria tangunt.
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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