ADJECTIVE
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devouring or craving food in great quantities
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
edacious vultures
How To Use edacious In A Sentence
- Dorothy McKey-Fender is still writing (on predacious worms, at the moment), and after coming out of the woods, Fender and I visit her at her house in McMinnville, Oregon.
- They do not realize we are going to have a recession no matter what they do, and many times these panicked actions by Washington and its edacious appetite for more power only make things worse. Alan Schram: Washington Overreacts
- With no parental care the eggs are vulnerable to predators such as cray fish, predacious insects and small fish.
- For Time, all-edacious and all - feracious, does run on: and the Seven Sleepers, awakening hungry after a hundred years, find that it is not their old nurses who can now give them suck! Past and Present
- The instant you enter the Thunderbird, you are overcome with an edacious distaste and a puncturing depression. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- They are predacious, catching with their hindlegs soft-bodied insects, such as true flies and spiders.
- PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another. CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2002
- The puppy's owner said, she planned to use the knife to carve a turkey, but it was swallowed by the edacious puppy.
- Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea. Among the Forces
- The ground beetles, or Carabidae, are just one of the largely predacious insect families designed for the job.