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[ US /pɹiˈdeɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. hunting and killing other animals for food
  2. 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 ’.
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