carnivorous

Modifies a noun

• dinosaur: Right up until the 1990s, T. rex was thought to be the largest carnivorous dinosaur that had ever lived.
• mammal: Rodents are important members of food chains - serving as food for large numbers of carnivorous mammals and birds.
• predator: Man is a carnivorous predator, and hunting, not horse racing, is " the sport of kings.
• plant: Lovers of the gruesome can see how carnivorous plants have evolved to eat meat!
• animal: Marine reptiles: a group of mostly large, carnivorous animals many of which lived in the oceans during the Mesozoic period.
• diet: The Vegetarian Society says that studies have found a purely carnivorous diet could be bad for dogs.

Modifying Another Word

• mainly: Although mainly carnivorous, the polecat has a varied diet consisting of voles, mice, rabbits and rats.
• fiercely: Like the larvae, the adults are fiercely carnivorous.
• mostly: They are mostly carnivorous, and eat other pests such as slugs, so they are generally beneficial in the garden.
• very: He showed me a figure made at this time, a very carnivorous British lion about to eat Napoleon.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Evidently for the same reason many animals also had to become carnivorous.