Thesaurus / predacious
FEEDBACK- greedy
- marauding
- rapacious
- voracious
- bloodthirsty
- carnivorous
- depredatory
- despoiling
- hungry
- hunting
- plundering
- predative
- preying
- raptorial
- ravaging
- ravening
- thieving
- vulturine
- vulturous
- wolfish
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How to use predacious in a sentence
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 BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONThus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predacious one!
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTSThose warlike and predacious Indians would not keep the peace, nor would they allow other people to do so.
MYTHS & LEGENDS OF OUR NEW POSSESSIONS & PROTECTORATECHARLES M. SKINNERAmong animals, the Orthoceratites led a predacious life in the Silurian seas.
THE WORLD BEFORE THE DELUGELOUIS FIGUIERBugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDERPredacious insects also consume numbers of them; one of these is the larva of a beetle, Harpalus calaginosus.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDERIndeed, its predacious habits unfit it for associating with its kind.
BIBLE ANIMALS;J. G. WOODThe principal obstacles to this are snow and predacious animals.
OUR DOMESTIC BIRDSJOHN H. ROBINSONOtherwise it is not commerce at all, but something predacious outside the law.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARKThe 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. MILLSWORDS RELATED TO PREDACIOUS
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.