predator

• prædator (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /prɪˈɖe.ʈə(r)/

predator (plural predators)

2. Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

   Hyponym: mesopredator

   • 2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners: Volume 2, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 73:

     Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.

   • 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

     So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk.

3. Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
4. A sexual predator.

• parroted, prorated, protrade, rope dart, teardrop

Borrowed from Latin praedātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpreːˈdaː.tɔr/

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• Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

predator m (plural predatoren, no diminutive)

1. (biology, chiefly zoology) A predator, organism (usually animal) that kills other non-plant organisms for food.
2. A human predator (criminal, in particular a sexual predator).

• roofdier

• predatie
• prederen

Borrowed from Latin praedator.

• IPA^(key): /prědaːtor/
• Hyphenation: pre‧da‧tor

prèdātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling прѐда̄тор)

1. predator