the act of an animal killing and eating other animals (动物的)捕食 Goldfish are particularly prone to predation by cats and birds such as herons. 金鱼特别容易被猫和鸟如苍鹭捕食。
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the Latin sense): from Latin praedatio(n-) ‘taking of booty’, from the verb praedari ‘seize as plunder’, from praeda ‘booty’. The current main sense dates from the 1930s.