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carnivorous [kär′niv·ə·rəs] (biology) Eating flesh or, as in plants, subsisting on nutrients obtained from animal protoplasm. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Don't think: Carnivorousness has never looked so adorable. This does, however, inadvertently raise a serious issue for vegetarians: how do we reconcile our love for animals with the carnivorousness nature requires of many of them? Nell Steadman comes to perceive more about her mother as she plumbs the depths of her own experience; her own lately held conclusion about the nature of motherhood shocks both Nell and the reader: "What pretty names we give to the carnivorousness that is called mother. |
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