Thesaurus / predacious
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Most of them are predacious, feeding on anything they can catch, and their strong jaws exude poison.
ZOOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LIFEERNEST INGERSOLL
They are active, bold and predacious, living on small game of every sort, and making their homes in holes in the ground.
ZOOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LIFEERNEST INGERSOLL
The birches supply food to about three hundred of these predacious fellows, while poplars feed and shelter almost as many.
THE SPELL OF THE ROCKIESENOS A. MILLS
Let us yet further imagine that this predacious species is swifter than our animal, on which it preys.
THE MAKING OF SPECIESDOUGLAS DEWAR
Were predacious creatures the most important foes of the rabbit it would never have obtained a firm foothold in Australia.
THE MAKING OF SPECIESDOUGLAS DEWAR
Of these, 2.23 per cent are the predacious ground beetles (Carabid), generally considered useful.
FOOD HABITS OF THE THRUSHES OF THE UNITED STATESF. E. L. BEAL
The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
OUR ANDROCENTRIC CULTURE, OR THE MAN MADE WORLDCHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
Bugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDER
The principal obstacles to this are snow and predacious animals.
OUR DOMESTIC BIRDSJOHN H. ROBINSON
Similarly throat disease among wood-pigeons does more towards keeping their numbers down than all the efforts of predacious birds.
THE MAKING OF SPECIESDOUGLAS DEWAR
WORDS RELATED TO PREDACIOUS
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.