Vocabulary : Carnify to Carnot's cycle
Carnify : To form flesh; to become like flesh.
Carnin : A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract of meat, and related to xanthin.
Carnival : A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. ;; Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.
Carnivora : An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.
Carnivoracity : Greediness of appetite for flesh.
Carnivore : One of the Carnivora.
Carnivorous : Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Carnose : Alt. of Carnous
Carnosity : A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. ;; Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering.
Carnot's cycle : An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.
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