The Grand Dennis writes:
>
> To put this in the perspective of Biology 101, "carnivory" can be defined
> either as "eating animals" or as "eating terrestrial vertebrates."
> ...
> But in general ecological terms, carnivores are those animals that eat
> animal matter (thus robins are very much carnivores), herbivores those that
> eat plant matter.

Ha, the beauty of English :-)

It reminds me of yesterday's post with a bird recipe: some (!) ingredients
were "boned birds".
I had to check in a dictionary what it meant, for my intuitive translation
was something like "birds added with bones", which didn't make much
sense :-).

The funniest thing is there is also another word for that: "deboned", which
seems more natural to me.

Conclusion(1): boned = deboned !
Conclusion(2): I don't know what to think, therefore I am !

P.S. let me double check ... Yes this is on-topic, I've written (three times)
the word "bird" !

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