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Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

Kite :: Kite (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.

Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper..

Ravening :: Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves..

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird..

Spoilsmen :: Spoilful (a.) Wasteful; rapacious.

Vulturism :: Vulturism (n.) The quality or state of being like a vulture; rapaciousness.

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..

Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves..

Theropoda :: Theropoda (n. pl.) An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies..

Vulture :: Vulture (n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae..

Hawk :: Hawk (n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk..

Swoopstake :: Swoop (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping..

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..

Large-handed :: Large-handed (a.) Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful..

Raptorial :: Raptorial (a.) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.

Water Bug :: Water bug () Any one of numerous species of large, rapacious, aquatic, hemipterous insects belonging to Belostoma, Benacus, Zaitha, and other genera of the family Belostomatidae. Their hind legs are long and fringed, and act like oars. Some of these insects are of great size, being among the largest existing Hemiptera. Many of them come out of the water and fly about at night..

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