carnivora

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)Carnivorans.

   “The minds of the great carnivora are therefore little exercised in nature, and do not grow; and, accustomed to power and to seeing all the denizens of the forest quail before them, they do not know what it is to feel a sense of help needed or of favors received.”

   “The carnivora are the gangsters round here, but man is still the arch criminal—Public Enemy Number One.”

   “The word snow deepening all night, the room devours and replicates its tired carnivora, its surface antigens, a troubled sleep stranded at a chair and a man carrying an infinity of blindfold nests inside him, a novendecillion bile conduits.”