Usually means: Consumption of one organism by another.
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  1. predation: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. predation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. predation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. predation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. Predation, predation: Dictionary.com
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  14. Predation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. predation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Predation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. predation: Free Dictionary
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  20. predation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. predation: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. predation: Medical dictionary

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  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. predation: Evolution Glossary

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noun:  (zoology) The preying of one animal on others.
noun:  (obsolete) The action of attacking or plundering.

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