predacious
[prɪ'deɪʃəs]
- 食肉的
英英释义
- 1. hunting and killing other animals for food
- 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
双语例句
- 1. The predacious ability of fifth instar nymph and adult is larger.
- 随着日本高姬蝽虫龄的增长,取食量增大,其中5龄若虫和成虫的捕食作用较大.
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英文词源
- predacious (adj.)
- also predaceous, 1713, from stem of predation (Latin praedari) + -acious.