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Raptorial   /rˌæptˈɔriəl/   Listen
Raptorial

adjective
1.
Relating to or characteristic of birds of prey.
2.
Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.  Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous.  "The rapacious wolf" , "Raptorial birds" , "Ravening wolves" , "A vulturine taste for offal"



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"Raptorial" Quotes from Famous Books



... the allotted period of their absence. Their rapidity of flight is well known, and the 'murder-aiming eye' of the most experienced sportsman will seldom avail against the swallow; hence they themselves seldom fall a prey to the raptorial birds."—CUVIER, edited by Griffiths. Swallows are long-lived; they have been known to live a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... a short step from this figure to the ancient sun symbol with which the eagle and other raptorial birds are intimately associated. The figure represented in plate CXXXIII, c, is a symbolic bird in which the different parts are directly comparable with the other bird pictographs already described. One may easily detect in it the two wings, the semicircular rain-cloud figures, and the ...
— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes
... soon lost sight of altogether for the allotted period of their absence. Their rapidity of flight is well known, and the 'murder-aiming eye' of the most experienced sportsman will seldom avail against the swallow; hence they themselves seldom fall a prey to the raptorial birds."—CUVIER, edited by Griffiths. Swallows are long-lived; they have been known to live a number of years ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... formations of the shore, and the innumerable salt marshes and lagoons to the south of Trincomalie. These, and the profusion of perching birds, fly-catchers, finches, and thrushes, which appear in the open country, afford sufficient quarry for the raptorial and predatory species—eagles, hawks, and falcons—whose daring sweeps and effortless undulations are striking ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent


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