PREDACEOUS

predaceous, predacious, predatory

(adjective) 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

predacious, predaceous

(adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

predaceous (comparative more predaceous, superlative most predaceous)

Surviving by preying on other animals.

Source: Wiktionary


Pre*da"ceous, a. Etym: [L. praeda prey. See Prey.]

Definition: Living by prey; predatory. Derham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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PARSEC

(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years


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