参考词典中predatory的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 掠夺的,进行掠夺的,捕食生物的
词形变化
- 名 词:pred'a·to'ri·ness副 词:pred'a·to'ri·ly
参考例句
- Living by seizing or taking prey;predatory.
捕食性的靠捕捉猎物为生的;食肉的 - Subsisting by seizing prey;predatory.
肉食的依靠捕获其它动物而生存的;食肉的
- Living by seizing or taking prey;predatory.
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
[同] marauding, predatory, raiding
[例]- bands of marauding Indians
- predatory warfare
- a raiding party
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
[同] predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
[例]- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
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- living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
[同] predaceous, predacious, predatory
[例]- predatory capitalists
- a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
- a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
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