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Predatory animal   /prˈɛdətˌɔri ˈænəməl/   Listen
Predatory animal

noun
1.
Any animal that lives by preying on other animals.  Synonym: predator.






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"Predatory animal" Quotes from Famous Books



... the slide-rock that falls from the cliffs, where he is protected by a great bed of broken stone so thick that no predatory animal can dig through it and catch him. There in those awful solitudes, enlivened only by the crack and rattle of falling slide-rock, the harsh cry of Clark's nut-cracker and the whistling wind sweeping over the storm-threshed summits and through the stunted cedar, the ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday



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