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Значения термина predatory на английском

Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.

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Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.

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Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain.

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Examples for "predaceous"
Examples for "predaceous"
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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
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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...
Использование термина predatory на английском
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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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Leaders at the rally also urged stronger legislation to prevent predatory lending.
Reuters
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Sharaf had seen some of the predatory males out in Media City.
Layover in dubai
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But they probably don't signify the moment when predatory behaviour first evolved.
BBC
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It was a predatory smile-onthis subject I consider myself an expert.
Stories: all-new tales
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He practically admitted that over-population was the inevitable soil of predatory capitalism.
The Pivot of Civilization
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His youth encouraged the AEtolians to make predatory incursions into the Peloponnesus.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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The migratory instinct seems to subdue for a season the predatory instinct.
Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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A predatory effort that helps keep Huddersfield alive in the top flight.
The Guardian
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Within such environments, the bacterium must defend itself against predatory protozoan grazers.
Pubmed
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I defy anybody to produce a more successfully predatory family than mine.
The Bent Twig
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Somehow the night made me forget the rains and the predatory arthropods.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
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