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Predacious

adjective
1.
Hunting and killing other animals for food.  Synonym: predaceous.
2.
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.  Synonyms: predaceous, predatory.  "A predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" , "A predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"





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"Predacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... extinct machairodus, or sabre-toothed tiger, is characterized by a more highly differentiated and specially carnivorous dentition than is shown by any predacious beast of the present day. {111} The specialization is of this kind. The grinding teeth (or molars) of beasts are divided into premolars and true molars. The premolars are molars which have deciduous vertical predecessors (or milk teeth), and any which are in front of such, i.e. between ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart


Words linked to "Predacious" :   acquisitive, carnivorous, predaceous


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