Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Carnaria.

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Examples

  • In many of the rodents and carnassia they enter the inguinal canal.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • This stiffness is increased in many orders of mammals (especially the carnassia and rodents) by the ossification of a part of the fibrous body (corpus fibrosum).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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