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掠夺的,进行掠夺的,捕食生物的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Predatory \Pred"a*to*ry\, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
   plunder, fr. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
   1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
      plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
      predatory party. ``A predatory war.'' --Macaulay.

   2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]

            Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
            predatory.                            --Bacon.

   3. (Zo["o]l.) Living by preying upon other animals;
      carnivorous.

资料来源 : WordNet®

predatory
     adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
            "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
            raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {raiding}]
     2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching
        living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
        "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste
        for offal" [syn: {rapacious}, {raptorial}, {ravening}, {vulturine},
         {vulturous}]
     3: 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: {predaceous}, {predacious}]