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Pre*da"ceous (?), a. [L. praeda prey. See Prey.] Living by prey; predatory.Derham.



The adjective has 2 senses

1. predacious,predaceous -- hunting and killing other animals for food
2. predaceous,predacious,predatory -- 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.Swin

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