Not only the owl, but many other birds more familiarly known as predacious in their habits, are useful by destroying great numbers of mice and moles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

A predacious animal is one that preys upon others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference

Based on his record heis a predacious opportunist.    From Wordnik.com.  [TN-SEN: Murdoch, Celebs Pump Cash Into Ford Campaign] Reference

In legal terms, predacious does not mean predatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Surely he could turn into something predacious or better.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Principle] Reference

But there are some oddities, like jackrabbits being predacious animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

When blues get large, they turn predacious and need bigger, more frequent meals.    From Wordnik.com.  [How, When, and Where to Fish for Trophy Catfish] Reference

Chironimids, among others, are predacious on other insect larvae and other small animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference

Nor can they harm bees, predacious insects, and other organisms that do not chew plant tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 The Vision] Reference

The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a predacious, eel-like fish native to the coastal regions of the Atlantic Ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exotic species] Reference

A useful aid to hygiene is keeping a few predacious fish, such as barbel (Clarias spp.), in each pool to clean up scraps of uneaten food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Homosexual literature and publications are the clearest example of this predacious inclination, pornography is normative in the homosexual subculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-24] Reference

Snails often develop a thicker shell upon exposure to predacious crabs, which affords the snail greater protection and therefore a greater chance of survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top-down control] Reference

Few cared to contemplate the consequences should the aggressive, militaristically accomplished mammals choose to take the side of the predacious reptilians instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

Just as acquiesing to monica lewinskis predacious actions were not a liability to executing the duties and governance responsibilitiesas President of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN: Trent Lott Elected Number Two In Senate] Reference

While the United States 'predacious form of capitalism inflicts horrific damage on people of other nations, many people in the United States are not exactly "sitting pretty".    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Labor's Losses:] Reference

'Sara-sara', an ant predacious on scorpions and Opiliones.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

The sleek and painted women, their predacious eyes aglow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference

Otherwise it is not commerce at all, but something predacious outside the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Women too I saw in plenty, bold, free, predacious creatures, a rustle of silk and a reek of perfume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference

"It looks bad, eh -- not?" the manager questioned, his predacious eyes fixed greedily upon the trinket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference

The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a predacious, eel-like fish native to the coastal regions of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

He began to introduce domesticated animals, and that meant a thinning of the ranks of predacious creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference

I was fair game for any predacious male who might be attracted by my youthful face or my well-developed figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeleine An Autobiography]

It is probably because these insects are mostly nocturnal and predacious that they do not present more vivid hues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference

In fact, they are not yet even adults, but rather predacious insect larvae that have a big head and sharp spiny jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories] Reference

O. atratus evolved from a lineage that's mainly predacious, and all of its cousin species predate small insects on flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeds Aside] Reference

Coyotes of several species occur in Mexico and though not generally regarded as aggressive animals are of a predacious nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference

In 2006, the C.I.A. shoveled a few million dollars to predacious warlords in an attempt to stymie a competing Islamist movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The booksellers in the Row always leave room between the wall and the books in their cellars, to allow room for this predacious vermin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference

While the United States 'predacious form of capitalism inflicts horrific damage on people of other nations, many people in the United States are not exactly.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The policy of Mary of Guise certainly tended to make Scotland a mere province of France, a province infested by French forces, slender, but ill-paid and predacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Knox and the Reformation] Reference

Though they themselves may make a meal for the predacious diving beetle, the little marbled 'manders are perfectly positioned to feed on their more populous brethren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news] Reference

"Our prices will be predacious, piratical, prohibitive, and profitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Named Smith] Reference

Many of the latter were large and predacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost on Venus]