The tiger beetles are large-headed, predacious forms, most numerous in the tropics, which live in holes in the soil and rush out to seize passing prey.
Let us yet further imagine that this predacious species is swifter than our animal, on which it preys.
Were predacious creatures the most important foes of the rabbit it would never have obtained a firm foothold in Australia.
Similarly throat disease among wood-pigeons does more towards keeping their numbers down than all the efforts of predacious birds.
Toads are nearly all very inconspicuous; nevertheless they are well protected by the acrid secretion from the skin glands; moreover, they are both recognised and avoided by those predacious creatures to whom they are distasteful.
If this tube were torn open by a predacious form we might conceive that the attacking animal would be alarmed by the light and refrain from destroying the worm.
The light may act as a warning to scare away predacious animals which would otherwise feed on the luminous organism.
In many cases the deadly work of parasitic plants and fungi is interrelated with, and almost inseparable from, the destructive operations of predacious insects.
The birches supply food to about three hundred of these predacious fellows, while poplars feed and shelter almost as many.
Example:-- No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant.
Of such a syllogism as the one quoted-- No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant.
The jaguar as a predacious beast is noted in Tro-Cortesianus 28b (Pl.
Coyotes of several species occur in Mexico and though not generally regarded as aggressive animals are of a predacious nature.
These characteristics together with the absence of any web, suggest a large predacious species, probably the tarantula (Tarantula sp.
The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development.
Not only the owl, but many other birds more familiarly known aspredacious in their habits, are useful by destroying great numbers of mice and moles.
The reader will here notice that the sacred narrative gives no account of the appearance or habits of the bird, but merely classed it with the remainder of the predacious birds, all of which are declared to be unfit for food.
Indeed, itspredacious habits unfit it for associating with its kind.
It seems very strange that a predacious bird allied to the eagles, none of which birds can swim, much less dive, should obtain its living from the water.
Amid the recurrent dangers incident to a world peopled with moving and predacious forms, two attitudes may be assumed--that of fighting, and that of fleeing or hiding.
But a hunting life cannot last forever; and when large game began to be exhausted, man found himself forced to abandon his destructive and predacious activities, and adopt the settled occupations of woman.
It is probably because these insects are mostly nocturnal and predacious that they do not present more vivid hues.
Mr. Bates also tells us that he never saw them molested by lizards or predacious flies, which often pounce on other butterflies.
They are the most formidable predacious mammals of the Antarctic seas, and annually account for large numbers of seals, penguins, and other cetaceans.
Skua-gulls and giant petrels were perched here and there amongst the rocks, watching for an opportunity of marauding the nests of the non-predacious birds.
The sea-leopard, the only predacious member of the seal family, has an elongated agile body and a large head with massive jaws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predacious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
