English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] predatory [ADJ] ที่กินสัตว์อื่นเป็นอาหาร, Syn. voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous predatory [ADJ] ที่ปล้นหรือขโมยมา, Syn. marauding, looting, pillaging

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary predatory (adj) ที่กินสัตว์อื่นเป็นอาหาร

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only) predatory (j) (p r e1 d @ t r ii)

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary PREDATORY P R EH1 D AH0 T AO2 R IY0

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary räuberisch predatory [Add to Longdo]

Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Predatory \Pred"a*to*ry\, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
     plunder, fr. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
     1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
        plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
        predatory party. "A predatory war." --Macaulay.
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     2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]
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              Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
              predatory.                            --Bacon.
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     3. (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  predatory
      adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
             "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
             raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {raiding}]
      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" [syn: {rapacious}, {raptorial}, {ravening},
         {vulturine}, {vulturous}]
      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 [syn: {predaceous},
         {predacious}]

From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:

  predatory [predətəriː]
     räuberisch
  

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