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.