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US
/pɹiˈdeɪʃəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- hunting and killing other animals for food
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living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
predatory capitalists
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
How To Use predaceous In A Sentence
- The swamp eel is predaceous, grows to about 1 m in length, and can survive dry periods by burrowing in mud.
- Most larvae are predaceous and feed on most other small invertebrates. Insecta (Aquatic)
- By Early Triassic times, cynodonts had diverged into large predaceous carnivores such as Cynognathus and moderate large omnivorous and herbivorous types such as Trirachodon and Diademodon.
- However, the problem with that scenario is that both adults and larvae of ladybugs are predaceous, but I doubt it very much that there would be enough prey on that bleak mountain top for so many of them to survive. Ladybugs galore
- Adults and deutonymphs are predaceous and often feed upon the immature stages of the species that they parasitize as larvae. Arthropoda
- They occur in cool running waters and are predaceous. Insecta (Aquatic)
- Unfortunately - at least for entomologists trying to classify them - male predaceous diving beetles lack these embellishments.
- Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
- Highly predaceous canids that invariably hunt in social packs include the African hunting dog, Lycaon pictus, and the dhole, Cuon alpinus.
- Thus, our results confirm theories predicting that isolated, rare, or predaceous species will be lost first from fragmented landscapes.
