Predaceous

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
     Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  predaceous
       adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: {predacious}]
       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 [syn: {predacious}, {predatory}]