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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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