Found 3 hits - Term: raptorial, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
raptorial \rapto"rial\ ra^pt=o"ri^al, a. zool.
a rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of
certain birds.
b adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws,
etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.
c of or pertaining to the raptores. see illust.
f of aves.
1913 webster
see also:
raptores aves
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
raptorial
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial
claws and bill for seizing prey"
2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching
living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
"raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste
for offal" syn: predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine,
vulturous
see also:
predatory rapacious ravening vulturine vulturous
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 moby thesaurus words for "raptorial":
all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, clawed, dentate,
digital, digitate, digitated, extortionate, fanged, fingered,
grabby, grasping, jawed, lupine, parasitic, predacious, predatory,
prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, taloned,
toothed, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish
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