predatory
depredador
definition
adjective
predatory birds
relating to or denoting an animal or animals preying naturally on others.
a life destroyed by predatory biographers and yellow journalists
seeking to exploit or oppress others.
translation of 'predatory'
adjective
de rapiña,
depredador
example
Effective defense against newly encountered 'predatory' species is clearly one factor that could facilitate establishment of an introduced species.
The 'predatory' species therefore also have short life spans.
If 'predatory' birds expect their prey to fall to the ground, Schmitz and Auliya's argument runs, they would be unlikely to notice a lizard still hanging from a branch.
We also found that one particularly aggressive 'predatory' ant species tended to attack bugs carrying eggs, and gangs of these ants could succeed in killing them.
Experts believe the extinct birds were meat-eaters because their beaks resemble those of 'predatory' eagles and scavenging vultures.
Unfortunately, 'predatory' adults are already using the recent disaster to exploit these imperiled children.
Adam and his team of falconers use 'predatory' birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
Describing himself as one of the ‘new princes of corporate feudalism,’ the CEO is corrupt, 'predatory' and greedy.
But those 'predatory' insects that locate prey through chemical sensing are not deterred.
Like Pabst's Lulu (but unlike American cinema's 'predatory' noir females), Stasha ignores money and seeks no economic goal.
It was probably a bipedal animal, probably 'predatory' , and probably the size of a large dog.
Large, 'predatory' mammals form a guild in which competition is expected to be relatively intense.
But 'predatory' birds attack from above, relying on their excellent vision to sight prey during daylight.
When large fish were excluded, 'predatory' insects and fish fry were freed from predation and more effectively controlled chironomid populations feeding on algae.
The bill also significantly improves protection for society's most vulnerable groups against exploitation by 'predatory' sexual offenders.
Several strains and species of 'predatory' nematodes are produced and sold.
Belinda Hoare, of Home and Away, portrays the extraordinary lead character, Miss Julie a fallen, desperate, sexually 'predatory' heiress seeking to be saved by love.
Visibility and distribution of prey and 'predatory' sharks may correlate with water depth.
Scientists still aren't clear, for example, whether the birds hunted in packs like velociraptors or individually like large 'predatory' cats.
Now a recent study suggests that one creature - with a bite that may rival that of most 'predatory' mammals - may have been sorely misjudged.
Mercury then enters the aquatic food chain, becoming more concentrated in higher-level 'predatory' fish.
Such substances generally are highest in older, larger, and more 'predatory' fish or marine mammals.
I mean, there have been cases of 'predatory' females seeking out young, teenage boys to have their wicked way with…
Previous studies indicate that expanded brain volume in 'predatory' mammals leaves less room for jaw muscles.
The leafcutter ants are accountable for 25 per cent of all leaf destruction in the South American rainforests, and 'predatory' ants eat more insects than all other animals put together.
Mammals and birds in particular developed new forms, whether as fast-running herbivores, large 'predatory' mammals and birds, or small quick birds and rodents.
The character's 'predatoriness' should be read metaphorically, Marsh suggests.
Like great wasps or huge cruel dragonflies, two helicopters hovered, ominously… 'predatorily' … over the blocks ahead of us.
Trepidation crept up my spine as she swam towards me, eyeing me 'predatorily' .
But he is careful to be clear that there's no childhood abuse to blame for her sexual 'predatoriness' .
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