PREDATORY ANIMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predatory animal mean? 

• PREDATORY ANIMAL (noun)
  The noun PREDATORY ANIMAL has 1 sense:

1. any animal that lives by preying on other animals

  Familiarity information: PREDATORY ANIMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDATORY ANIMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animal that lives by preying on other animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

predator; predatory animal

Hypernyms ("predatory animal" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "predatory animal"):

carnivore (any animal that feeds on flesh)