predacean

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin praeda (“prey”).

Noun edit

predacean (plural predaceans)

(archaic) Any carnivorous animal.
- 1835, William Kirby, William Spence, On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God. As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts:
  Predaceans or Zoophagans

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “predacean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)