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predacious
adjective as in meat-eating
Weak matches
adjective as in predatory
adjective as in preying
Strong match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predacious one!
Those warlike and predacious Indians would not keep the peace, nor would they allow other people to do so.
Among animals, the Orthoceratites led a predacious life in the Silurian seas.
Bugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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