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Meaning of PREDACEOUS

Pronunciation:  pri'deyshus

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
  2. [adj]  hunting and killing other animals for food
 
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 Synonyms: acquisitive, carnivorous, predacious, predatory
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
 
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