As the dinosaur that leaps out of the water and devours a shark in the Jurassic World trailer, it's become notorious as the most polarising creature in the film.
"We consider Aristide to be like a wolf who devours his children," said Butheur Metayer, the dead man's brother, who has appointed himself police chief in Gonaïves.The opposition Democratic Platform, made up of political parties, students, civic and business groups, has condemned the violence.
This "eat them to beat them" approach already helps keep down the population of lion fish, a rapacious stripy sea-beast which devours protected fish stocks off America's west coast.Wild meat is not always tasty.
Her older son, who is five, devours maths apps and asks his mother questions about arithmetic.
Some jamming equipment can scramble these signals, as well as those from mobile phones, but the best kit devours battery power and costs more than €100,000 ($140,000).
The most serious threat to the reef is not agricultural run-off (which warms the water and increases its nutrient level, so that the coral gets choked by algae and dies), but a nasty starfish called the crown of thorns, originally imported in the ballast tanks of foreign vessels, which devours coral polyps.
But instead of waiting to be fed, a larva devours the second egg that her mother laid.
Join New Labour on favourable terms before it devours you anyway: that has been Mr Ashdown's unspoken motto.Whatever the merits of the two positions, there is no denying that the party faces a painful strategic choice.
Earlier this year barnesandnoble.com, the Internet arm of America's giant bookseller, signed him up to write regular online reviews of some of the two to five books that he devours each week at his villa in Bermuda.
Urban sprawl devours the richest land in the Nile Delta at nearly 1% a year, despite stringent rules against building.
A 2002 World Bank study found that private tuition accounted for fully 1.6% of GDP, and other studies suggest it devours a whopping 20% of household spending in families with school-age children.
