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Adjective: predacious  pri'dey-shus
  1. Hunting and killing other animals for food
    - predaceous
     
  2. Living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
    "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster";
    - predaceous, predatory

See also: acquisitive, carnivorous

Encyclopedia: Predacious

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