predacious

predacious
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • predacious — index predatory, rapacious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • predacious — predacious, predatory (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. robbing, ravening, plundering. See stealing …   English dictionary for students

  • predacious — (adj.) 1713, from stem of PREDATION (Cf. predation) + ACIOUS (Cf. acious) …   Etymology dictionary

  • predacious — or predaceous [prē dā′shəs, pridā′shəs] adj. [< L praedari, to prey upon (< praeda: see PREY) + ACEOUS] preying on other animals; predatory predacity [prēdas′ə tē, pridas′ə tē] n. predaciousness predaceousness …   English World dictionary

  • predacious — adj. (also predaceous) 1 (of an animal) predatory. 2 relating to such animals (predacious instincts). Derivatives: predaciousness n. predacity n. Etymology: L praeda booty: cf. audacious …   Useful english dictionary

  • predacious — adjective see predaceous …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • predacious — adj. [L. preda, prey] Having the characteristics of a predator …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • predacious — predaciousness, predacity /pri das i tee/; esp. Biol., predaceousness, n. /pri day sheuhs/, adj. predatory; rapacious. Also, esp. Biol., predaceous. [1705 15; PRED(ATORY) + ACIOUS] * * * …   Universalium

  • predacious — prɪ deɪʃəs adj. hunting other creatures for food, preying on other creatures; robbing, stealing, taking advantage of others …   English contemporary dictionary

  • predacious — [prɪ deɪʃəs] (also predaceous) adjective (of an animal) predatory. Derivatives predaciousness noun predacity noun Origin C18: from L. praeda booty + acious …   English new terms dictionary

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