- (a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
- (a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
- (a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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