From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Predaceous \Pre*da"ceous\, adjective [L. praeda prey. See {Prey}.] Living by prey; predatory. --Derham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: {predacious}]
2: 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: {predacious}, {predatory}]
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