Meaning of EDACIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | i'deyshus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" |
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| | Synonyms: | | esurient, gluttonous, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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| | Definition: | | \E*da"cious\, a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.]
Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. --Carlyle.
-- {E*da"cious*ly}, adv. -- {E*da"cious*ness}, n.
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