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predacious
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predacious, predaceous
(of animals) habitually hunting and killing other animals for food


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From such convictions the rediscovery of the Afro-American followed logically and psychologically, for if the factory was dehumanizing, the campus and the office stultifying, and the great corporations predaceous, the Afro-American--excluded from factory, campus, office, and corporation--was the perfect symbol of cultural innocence and regeneration" (91).
Planet Natural's current bestsellers are beneficial insects: Buy a bag containing thousands of ferociously predaceous Hippodamia convergens (better known as lady beetles), and your garden's potential population of harmful insects will most certainly be kept at bay.
 
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