edacious

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

edacious
    adj 1: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
           vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
           "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient},
           {rapacious}, {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious},
           {wolfish}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Edacious \E*da"cious\, a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.]
   Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
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         Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. --Carlyle.
   -- {E*da"cious*ly}, adv. -- {E*da"cious*ness}, n.
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