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View definitions for predacious

predacious

adjective as in meat-eating

adjective as in preying

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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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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to predacious, such as: cannibalistic, flesh-eating, and omophagous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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