The Clue
Rapacious (9 letter answer)
The Answer
PREDATORY
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Notes
The answer PREDATORY is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
PREDATORY as an adjective:
1. (marauding, predatory, raiding) = characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
2. (predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous) = 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"
3. (predaceous, predacious, predatory) = living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton