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predacious

/pri-dey-shuhs/US // prɪˈdeɪ ʃəs //UK // (prɪˈdeɪʃəs) //

宿命,早熟,贪婪的,早熟的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : predatory; rapacious.

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Examples

  • The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.

  • Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predacious one!

  • Those warlike and predacious Indians would not keep the peace, nor would they allow other people to do so.

  • Among animals, the Orthoceratites led a predacious life in the Silurian seas.

  • Bugs are all injurious to man, excepting such as are predacious, which are serviceable by destroying other insects.