Meanings of predaceous in anglès

Late chickens cannot stand the heavy dews, or withstand the predaceous hawks.

For Roth surmised that both these plants were, in their way, predaceous.

Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!

The predaceous rascal came, as usual, in the latter half of the night.

We measured density responses of detritivorous, herbivorous and predaceous arthropods to the increased resource supply.

Fortunately weather conditions together with parasitic and predaceous insects hold them more or less in check.

It is the dead Chopin, but the nose is that of a predaceous bird, painfully aquiline.

Will you give up this continent, territory, Free States and all, to our predaceous, blood-eating system?

This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament.

The two barbarian traits, ferocity and astuteness, go to make up the predaceous temper or spiritual attitude.

The felled timber attracts lignivorous insects, and these draw in their train the predaceous species of various families.

Those of the highest zone are remarkable for the great predominance of predaceous species and of wingless forms.

There are few large quadrupeds in the country, and so far as we could learn none of these are predaceous.

She was an honest woman with a religious oneness of aim, and such are not the ladies for predaceous holluschickies.

Repeated episodes of subjugation and suppression mixed with countless incidents of predaceous cupidity and rapacity have made Man what he is today.

A homely and familiar fact may serve to show that the predaceous impulse does not prevail in the same degree in all classes.