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View synonyms for predacious
predacious
/ prɪˈdeɪʃəs; prɪˈdæsɪtɪ /
adjective
- (of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food
- preying on others
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Derived Forms
- preˈdaciousness, noun
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Other Words From
- pre·dacious·ness pre·dac·i·ty [pri-, das, -i-tee]; especially Biology, pre·daceous·ness noun
- unpre·daceous adjective
- unpre·daceous·ly adverb
- unpre·daceous·ness noun
- unpre·dacious adjective
- unpre·dacious·ly adverb
- unpre·dacious·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of predacious1
First recorded in 1705–15; pred(atory) + -acious
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Word History and Origins
Origin of predacious1
C18: from Latin praeda plunder; compare predatory
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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.
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Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predacious one!
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Those warlike and predacious Indians would not keep the peace, nor would they allow other people to do so.
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Among animals, the Orthoceratites led a predacious life in the Silurian seas.
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Bugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects.
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