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Significats de predacious en anglès

Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.

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        Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of predatory priests.
        Boston noir
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        Accusations include predatory pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
        BBC
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        An even older rule, going back to the very earliest predatory animals.
        Grand junction
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        Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from predatory mortgage lending practices.
        Reuters
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        These happen to be the policies which best suit predatory financial speculators.
        The Guardian
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        Late chickens cannot stand the heavy dews, or withstand the predaceous hawks.
        Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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        For Roth surmised that both these plants were, in their way, predaceous.
        Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
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        Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!
        The Natural History of Selborne
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        The predaceous rascal came, as usual, in the latter half of the night.
        Winter Sunshine
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        We measured density responses of detritivorous, herbivorous and predaceous arthropods to the increased resource supply.
        Pubmed
        Ús de predacious en anglès
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        Parasites and predacious insects usually keep it in fair control.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
        The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
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        And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
        Blood Meridian
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        She ignored the predacious ephemera flashing through the weeds.
        The last page
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        He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of predacious creatures.
        The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) / A Plain Story Simply Tol...
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        We accept that fast bowlers, predacious by nature, like to prowl in twosome pursuit of a kill.
        The Guardian
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        The morphological development of these traps is the key indicator of their switch from saprophytic to predacious lifestyles.
        Pubmed
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        The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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        They are the most formidable predacious mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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