Search Result for "predaceous":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. hunting and killing other animals for food;
[syn: predacious, predaceous]
2. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
- Example: "predatory capitalists"
- Example: "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott
- Example: "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton
[syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See Prey.] Living by prey; predatory. --Derham. [1913 Webster]
