predaceous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

predaceous
    adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn:
           {predacious}, {predaceous}]
    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 [syn: {predaceous}, {predacious},
       {predatory}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, a. [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
   Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
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