What is the meaning of predaceous?

adjective

  • Hunting and killing other animals for food.
  • 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
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