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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities;
- Example: "edacious vultures"
- Example: "a rapacious appetite"
- Example: "ravenous as wolves"
- Example: "voracious sharks"
[syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Edacious \E*da"cious\, a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.]
   Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
   [1913 Webster]

         Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. --Carlyle.
   -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

edacious
    adj 1: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious
           vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves";
           "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient,
           rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious,
           wolfish]