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(of animals )动物 living by killing and eating other animals Topics Animalsc2捕食性的 (of people )人 using weaker people for their own financial or sexual advantage (在金钱或性关系上)欺负弱小的,压榨他人的 a predatory insurance salesman 用高压手段推销的保险推销员 a predatory look 狞视
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to plundering’): from Latin praedatorius, from praedator ‘plunderer’, from praedat- ‘seized as plunder’, from the verb praedari ‘seize as plunder’, from praeda ‘booty’.