Raptorial

  • 11raptorial — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, bloodsucking, clawed, dentate, digital, digitate, digitated, extortionate, fanged, fingered, grabby, grasping, jawed, lupine, parasitic, predacious, predatory, prehensile, rapacious,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 12raptorial — rap·to·ri·al || ræp tɔːrɪəl adj. predatory, hunting other creatures for food …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 13raptorial — adjective chiefly Zoology 1》 predatory. 2》 adapted for seizing prey. Derivatives raptorially adverb …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 14raptorial — I. a. Preying, rapacious, raptorious. II. n. Bird of prey …

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  • 15raptorial — rap·to·ri·al …

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  • 16raptorial — rap•to•ri•al [[t]ræpˈtɔr i əl, ˈtoʊr [/t]] adj. 1) zool. preying upon other animals; predatory 2) zool. adapted for seizing prey, as an eagle s claws 3) orn of or pertaining to a bird of prey • Etymology: 1815–25 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17raptorial — /ræpˈtɔriəl / (say rap tawreeuhl) adjective 1. preying upon other animals; predatory. 2. adapted for seizing prey, as the beak or claws of a bird. 3. belonging or relating to the raptors. {New Latin Raptōrēs (plural of Latin raptor robber,… …

  • 18raptorial —   a. predatory; pertaining to birds of prey …

    Dictionary of difficult words

  • 19raptorial — adj. & n. adj. (of a bird or animal) adapted for seizing prey; predatory. n. 1 = RAPTOR. 2 a predatory animal. Etymology: L raptor: see RAPTOR …

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  • 20raptorial claw — 1. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) The toothed dactyl curved backward on the propodus. 2. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Mantids, the spinose tibiae and femur that produce the hook …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

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