predacious

英 [prɪ'deɪʃəs] 美 [prɪ'deɪʃəs]

• adj. 食肉的

英英释义

Adjective:

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"
   "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
   

词汇搭配

• predacious fungi 捕食真菌
• predacious plant 捕食植物

近反义词

【近义词】

• acquisitive 想获得的
• predaceous 捕食生物的
• predatory 掠夺的