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File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|Artist-engineer harvests new [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|bingo algorithms]] from [[Diagramaceous soil]], hopes to domesticate Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
File:Francesco Lana de Terzi Flying boat 1670.png|link=Airship (nonfiction)|[[Airship (nonfiction)|Aerial Ship]] reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.
File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.
File:Vostok1_descent_module.jpg|link=Spacecraft (nonfiction)|[[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|Vostok-1 descent module]] fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.

Revision as of 13:36, 14 June 2016

Flock of Carnivorous dirigibles. USN photo circa 1930-31.

Carnivorous digible (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of self-aware dirigible.

It is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible.

The term carnivous, and the Latin name Dirigible horribilis, are humorous irony, probably Edward Lear's doing.

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