Crossword-Solution: PREDATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Predation | n. | The act of pillaging. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PREDATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| animal hunts | 1 answer |
| Despoilment | 2 answers |
| Rapacity | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREDATION (5)
Predation can not become the habitual, conventional resource of any group or any class until industrial methods have been developed to such a degree of efficiency as to leave a margin worth fighting for, above the subsistence of those engaged in getting a living.
The transition from peace to predation therefore depends on the growth of technical knowledge and the use of tools.
The conventions of the business world have grown up under the selective surveillance of this principle of predation or parasitism.
With the decline of organic matter, new problems with plant and animal health gradually developed while insect predation worsened and profits dropped because soils declining in humus need ever larger amounts of fertilizer to maintain yields.
But so long as the Imperial syndicate enjoy their present immunity from outside obstruction, and can accordingly carry on an uninterrupted campaign of cumulative predation in Korea, China and Manchuria, the patriotic infatuation is less likely to fall off, and by so much the decay of Japanese loyalty will be retarded.
Quotes with PREDATION (3)
Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
All the explanations proposed seem to beonly partly satisfactory. They range from massive climatic change to mammalian predation to the extinction of a plant with apparent laxative properties, in which case the dinosaurs died of constipation.
at least some paleontologists believe that the demiseof the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1980–1986).