Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Carnaria; a carnivorous mammal.
- noun [⟨ F. carnassière: see
carnassial .] A carnassial tooth.
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Examples
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That he was a mystic is clear to biologists from the fact that, having rejected the explanatory value of adaptation for survival, he fell back on the proposition that if the tiger has flesh-tearing teeth, it is because, during its evolution, it acquired a 'carnivorous soul' (une 'ame de carnassier').
In the Genes Beer, Gavin de 1966
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