Usually means: Eager to hunt or capture.
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  1. predacious: Merriam-Webster
  2. predacious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. predacious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. predacious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. predacious: Vocabulary.com
  6. predacious: Wordnik
  7. predacious: Wiktionary
  8. predacious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. predacious: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. predacious: Dictionary.com
  11. predacious: Rhymezone
  12. predacious: FreeDictionary.org
  13. predacious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. predacious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. predacious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of predaceous. [Surviving by preying on other animals.]

Similar:
carnivorous, predaceous, predatory, acquisitive, necrophagous, herbivorous, raptorial, rapacious, prey, avaricious, more...

Opposite:
nonpredatory, herbivorous, docile, passive

Types:
carnivorous, vicious, fierce, ravenous, voracious, hungry, more...

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Similar:
carnivorous, predaceous, predatory, acquisitive, necrophagous, herbivorous, raptorial, rapacious, prey, avaricious, more...

Opposite:
nonpredatory, herbivorous, docile, passive

Types:
carnivorous, vicious, fierce, ravenous, voracious, hungry, more...



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