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raptorial

[rap-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] / ræpˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- /


ADJECTIVE
preying
Synonyms


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The team also examined owl and raptorial predators however while the effects were the same, they were not as evident.

From Science Daily Nov. 21, 2023

In either case, we clearly have underestimated the abilities of those big, beady, raptorial eyes.

From Scientific American Oct. 13, 2018

Equipped with grasping, raptorial appendages, these Ordovician hunters plucked up soft-bodied prey and fed it into their camera-shutter mouths.

From Science Magazine May 25, 2011

Vultures are not the only raptorial birds that do this.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Douglas Dewar

Scats from predatory mammals and reptiles and pellets from raptorial birds were examined.

From A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas by Edwin P. Martin




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