Crossword-Solution: CARNASSIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carnassial | a. | Adapted to eating flesh. |
| Carnassial | n. | A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores. |
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| CARNIVOROUS teeth | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
ERCOLET
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with CARNASSIAL (5)
DESCRIPTION.--The fur of the upper part bright fulvous; more or less tinged with maroon on the back, lighter underneath; membranes dusky, but tinged with the prevailing colour of the fur; ears angulated; a minute false molar in front of the carnassial in the upper jaw.
There is also a difference in the lower carnassial or first molar, which impinges on the upper carnassial or fourth premolar; it has a protuberance behind, termed the heel, which is prominently marked, but it is in the molars in which the greatest deviation from the specially carnivorous dentition occurs.
Further, you know from experience that such and such definitely modified organs are invariably found with the carnivorous habit, carnassial teeth, for example, and reduced clavicles.
From a "carnivorous" alimentary canal, then, you can infer with certainty that the animal possessed carnassial teeth and the other structural peculiarities of carnivorous animals, _e.g._, the peculiar coronoid process of the mandible.
The bush-dog (_Speothos_, or _Icticyon venaticus_) of Guiana is a small, short-legged, short-tailed and short-haired species characterized by the molars being only (2 or 1)/2; the carnassial having no inner cusp.