单词 | predacious |
释义 | predacious (once / 157591 pages) adj WORD FAMILY predacious USAGE EXAMPLESThey’re predacious, eating whatever they can get their grubby hands on. Washington Times(Sep 22, 2016) Now, four days later, Nukita warned us that a similarly predacious swarm of print and television reporters lay in wait for us in Kathmandu. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air(1996) Metastasis therefore requires the untethering of these bonds, to allow predacious cancer cells to migrate freely. Scientific American(Oct 30, 2013) 1adj hunting and killing other animals for food Syn predaceous carnivorous (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals 2adj living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton Syn predaceous, predatory acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
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