Associations to the word «Predaceous»

Wiktionary

PREDACEOUS, adjective. Surviving by preying on other animals.

Dictionary definition

PREDACEOUS, adjective. Hunting and killing other animals for food.
PREDACEOUS, adjective. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats