首页英语词典predatorypredatory英英释意

predatory

英 ['predət(ə)rɪ] 美['prɛdətɔri]
  • adj. 掠夺的,掠夺成性的;食肉的;捕食生物的

英英释意


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