The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See Prey.]
Living by prey; predatory.
--Derham.
Wiktionary
a. Surviving by preying on other animals. alt. Surviving by preying on other animals.
WordNet
adj. hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: predacious]
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]
Usage examples of "predaceous".
All men of letters or of science, all writers well known to the public, are constantly tampered with, in these days, by a class of predaceous and hungry fellow-laborers who may be collectively spoken of as the brain-tappers.
It may produce several generations of predaceous offspring in one summer.
Other predators include parasitic wasps, aphid lions, predaceous mites and syrphid flies.
The subject of the predaceous dinosaurs is taken up in the sixth chapter.
With the fall of night came more visits from huge, predaceous animals.
Constable Drummond, who was staring at Haydon with predaceous fascination.
After denouncing the predaceous Interests he relapsed into an attitude of Meditation, with the Chin on the starched Front, very much like a Steel Engraving of Daniel Webster.
From many of the bones of the gentler of these animals being found in a broken state, it is supposed that the cave was the haunt of hyenas and other predaceous animals, by which the smaller ones had been consumed.
On the contrary, the predaceous cephalopods and the highly organized crustaceous are among the oldest fossils.
Hart dissected the stomach of a woman of thirty which resembled the stomach of a predaceous bird, with patches of tendon on its surface.
In the immense black grotto there was a silk-and-soap organ playing a predaceous black music.