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Meanings of
predacious
in English
Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.
predatory
predaceous
Related terms
carnivorous
acquisitive
Synonyms
Examples for "
predatory
"
predatory
predaceous
Examples for "
predatory
"
1
Let me ask your opinion, Father, about this epidemic of
predatory
priests.
2
Accusations include
predatory
pricing, offering illegal taxi services and breaking competition rules.
3
An even older rule, going back to the very earliest
predatory
animals.
4
Lawmakers are also working to protect consumers from
predatory
mortgage lending practices.
5
These happen to be the policies which best suit
predatory
financial speculators.
1
Late chickens cannot stand the heavy dews, or withstand the
predaceous
hawks.
2
For Roth surmised that both these plants were, in their way,
predaceous
.
3
Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and
predaceous
one!
4
The
predaceous
rascal came, as usual, in the latter half of the night.
5
We measured density responses of detritivorous, herbivorous and
predaceous
arthropods to the increased resource supply.
Usage of
predacious
in English
1
Parasites and
predacious
insects usually keep it in fair control.
2
The
predacious
instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
3
And is the race of man not more
predacious
yet?
4
She ignored the
predacious
ephemera flashing through the weeds.
5
He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of
predacious
creatures.
6
We accept that fast bowlers,
predacious
by nature, like to prowl in twosome pursuit of a kill.
7
The morphological development of these traps is the key indicator of their switch from saprophytic to
predacious
lifestyles.
8
The sea-leopard, the only
predacious
member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
9
They are the most formidable
predacious
mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
more predacious
predacious creatures
predacious ephemera
predacious insects
predacious lifestyles
More collocations
Predacious
through the time