Hypertext Webster Gateway: "predaceous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
predaceous
adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: {predacious}]
2: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
"predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society
in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S.
Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early
geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: {predacious}, {predatory}]
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