CARNASSIAL • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Carnassial

... smell, speed, agility, and strength in paws and jaws. These particular functions must have correspondingly modified organs, well-developed eyes and ears, claws and teeth. 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 ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell