slovo | definícia |
edacious (encz) | edacious,nenasytný adj: Michal Ambrož |
edacious (encz) | edacious,žravý adj: web |
Edacious (gcide) | 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.
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edacious (wn) | 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] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
edacious (encz) | edacious,nenasytný adj: Michal Ambrožedacious,žravý adj: web |
predacious (encz) | predacious,dravý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Edaciously (gcide) | 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] |
Edaciousness (gcide) | 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] |
edacious (wn) | 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] |
predacious (wn) | predacious
adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn:
predacious, predaceous]
2: 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 [syn: predaceous, predacious,
predatory] |
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