Carnivorous dirigible

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.

In the News

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  Aerial Ship reports sighting of "dirrigibelli horribelli" - probably the Carnivorous dirigible.

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  Vostok-1 descent module fears nothing, has nothing to fear from Carnivorous dirigibles.

Fiction cross-reference

• Edward Lear
• New Minneapolis, Canada

Nonfiction cross-reference

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  Edward Lear (nonfiction).

• Carnivore (nonfiction)
• Dirigible (nonfiction)
• Edward Lear (nonfiction)
• Spacecraft (nonfiction)