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predacious

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Adjective
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pre=da=cious

OXFORD DICTIONARY

predacious, adj. (also predaceous)
1 (of an animal) predatory.
2 relating to such animals (predacious instincts).

Derivative
predaciousness n. predacity n.
Etymology
L praeda booty: cf. audacious

THESAURUS

predacious

all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, dining, eating, extortionate, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grabby, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grasping, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, looting, lupine, man-eating, marauding, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, parasitic, phytivorous, phytophagous, pillaging, plant-eating, plundering, plunderous, postprandial, prandial, predatory, preprandial, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, spoliatory, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

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