carnivore , meaning "meat eater" (Latin, "caro", genitive "carnis", meaning "meat" or "flesh"
Oh, I love meat! Being a carnivore is awesome. Are you a carnivore too?
Carnivore
A carnivore , meaning "meat eater" (Latin, "caro", genitive "carnis", meaning "meat" or "flesh" and "vorare" meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging. Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are called obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are called facultative carnivores. Omnivores also consume
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Carna and the Bean-Kalends.
Macrobius (5th century) says that the name "Carna" was derived from "caro, carnis", "flesh, meat, food" (compare English "carnal" and "carnivore"), and that she was the guardian of the heart and the vital parts of the human body. The power to avert vampiric "striges", which Ovid attributes to the conflated Cardea-Carna, probably belonged to Carna, while the charms fixed on