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Adjective: rapacious  ru'pey-shus
  1. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
    "the rapacious wolf"
    - predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
     
  2. Excessively greedy and grasping
    "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
    - ravening, voracious
     
  3. Devouring or craving food in great quantities
    "a rapacious appetite"
    - edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish

See also: acquisitive, aggressive, gluttonous, rapaciously, rapaciousness, rapacity

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