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Definition: Predaceous |
PredaceousAdjective1. Hunting and killing other animals for food. 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "predaceous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Etymology: Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, adjective. [Latin expression praeda prey. See Prey.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PredaceousSynonyms: predacious (adj), predatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stealing | Adjective: thieving; Verb: thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial; (rapacious). |
Taking | Adjective: taking;Verb: privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Predaceous |
| English words defined with "predaceous": alder fly, alderfly, Alepisaurus ♦ backswimmer, billfish ♦ gar, garfish, garpike, genus Alepisaurus, genus Calosoma ♦ Lepisosteus osseus ♦ Notonecta undulata ♦ Sialis lutaria. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "predaceous": troll lining. (references) |
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Expressions using "predaceous": predaceous animal ♦ predaceous instinct. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beetle diving predaceous | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "predaceous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | praedatorinsekt (predaceous insect), rovmide (auxiliary, linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), rovinsekt (auxiliary, predaceous insect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roofmijt (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), roofinsekt (predaceous insect), roofinsect (predaceous insect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | petopunkki (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), petohyönteinen (entomophagous insect, predaceous insect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insecte prédateur (predaceous insect), acarien prédateur (predaceous mite, predatory mite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Raubmilbe (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), Raubinsekt (predaceous insect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρπακτικόσ (curmudgeon, grasping, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, ravishing, vulturous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rapace (greedy, predatory, rapacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edaceouspray ácaro predador (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite). (various references) rapaz (lad, laddie, nipper, predacious, predatory, rapacious), de rapiña (predacious, predatory). (various references) predator (predaceous insect, predator), rovkvalster (linopodes mite, predaceous mite, predatory mite, red gamasid mite), rovinsekt (predaceous insect). (various references) yırtıcı (ferocious, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, ripper, savage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "predaceous": predaceousness, predaceousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Predaceous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pedaneus, precancerous, pretacious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "predaceous" (pronounced prēdā"shus) |
| 5 | -d ā" sh u s | audacious. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u s | capacious, efficacious, fallacious, flirtatious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, ostentatious, salacious, sebaceous, spacious, tenacious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, auspicious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, ferocious, fictitious, fractious, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, seditious, semiprecious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vicious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: caroused, escarped, peasecod, persuade, precodes, proceeds, produces, recouped, respaced, scorepad, upsoared. | |
-3 letters: acerose, acerous, apercus, aroused, capered, carouse, cesurae, coursed, creased, croupes, crusade, crusado, decares, deposer, escaped, escaper, peascod, perdues, perused, precode, proceed, produce, recodes, recoupe, recoups, recused, redcaps, reduces, reposed, rescued, respace, respade, scarped, scauper, scoured, scraped, secured, seducer, sourced, speared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+3 letters: propaedeutics. | |
+4 letters: overspeculated, predaceousness. | |
+5 letters: hydrocephaluses, pseudopregnancy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 64 61 63 65 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.. .- -.-. . --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100100 01100001 01100011 01100101 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e d a c e o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0064 0061 0063 0065 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847170676971818785 |
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