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US
/pɹiˈdeɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- hunting and killing other animals for food
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living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
predatory capitalists
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
How To Use predaceous In A Sentence
- The predaceous invaders consume the fungus and, researchers suspect, feed the stolen larvae to their own broods.
- It attempts to characterize the predatory behavior of three genera of large predaceous dinosaurs from the distribution of their shed teeth at Como Bluff, Wyoming.
- The predaceous diving beetle seems to defy the rules of nature.
- Predaceous arthropods were tallied and assigned to general taxonomic groups: spiders, hymenopterans, hemipterans, and coccinellids.
- The predaceous mien that I witnessed earlier has been whomped out of him, and now he is miserable and scared and repentant. The Song of The Dodo
- Young live in schools while adults are solitary, predaceous, and aggressive, only coming together to spawn.
- Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
- In the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, I've made my way through several articles over the last week: "Bistahieversor sealeyi, gen. et sp. nov., a new tyrannosauroid from New Mexico and the origin of deep snouts in Tyrannosauroidea"; "A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes"; and "Demythologizing Arctodus simus, the 'short-faced' long-legged predaceous bear that never was. "No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."
- Densities of predaceous arthropods were higher on fertilized than on unfertilized trees.
- It has, in fact, all the vices and none of the virtues of a predaceous fish ’.
