Usually means: Organisms hunted and eaten by predators.
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  6. preys: Dictionary.com
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prey)

noun:  That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
noun:  A person or thing given up as a victim.
noun:  A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
noun:  (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.
noun:  (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
noun:  The victim of a disease.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a predator.
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