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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. relating to or characteristic of birds of prey;
- Example: "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey"

2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;
- Example: "a predatory bird"
- Example: "the rapacious wolf"
- Example: "raptorial birds"
- Example: "ravening wolves"
- Example: "a vulturine taste for offal"
[syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Raptorial \Rap*to"ri*al\ (r[a^]p*t[=o]"r[i^]*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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, raptorial,
       ravening, vulturine, vulturous]