raptorial

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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

The other raptorial birds possess little to distinguish them from those of other countries.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

Brachia: the arms: has been applied to raptorial fore-legs.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.