predacious
adjective
predaceous
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a variation of
predacious.
Example Sentences
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Birds and predaceous insects often manage small populations but there may be times you decide to intercede.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
In nature it is kept in check by various predators such as ladybugs, a gall midge, predaceous mites and several pirate bugs, all of them extremely sensitive to insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Just because you’ve called something a spider once doesn’t mean that the next time you have to call it an arachnid or a predaceous eight-legged creepy-crawly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Some of them were aquatic, and with limbs rudimentary or little developed, but many of them walked on the land, and were powerful and predaceous creatures.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
Thylacine, thī′la-sēn, n. the largest of the extant predaceous marsupials, represented by one species, now restricted to Tasmania.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
