predatory

英 ['pred?t(?)r?] 美['pr?d?t?ri]
  • adj. 掠奪的，掠奪成性的；食肉的；捕食生物的

英英釋意

1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians"
"predatory warfare"
"a raiding party"
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"
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