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Перевод: predatory

[прилагательное]
грабительский; хищный

Тезаурус:

1. In a series of tests it was discovered that large predatory fish from the Pacific avoided sea snakes when they were offered as food, but that fish from the Atlantic lacked this caution and attacked them.
2. The humble toad, so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird, has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin .
3. Fishing for predatory bream with imitation or real fish should be regarded as an opportunist method to be employed when you happen to see bream chasing fry, or when you have tried all conventional methods and failed; or simply when you fancy your chances with a fish bait.
4. The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel.
5. Sometimes these similarities are quite obvious: the ferocious teeth of a predatory dinosaur are a sure indication of hunting habits, with hardly a glance at the fangs of living mammalian carnivores.
6. And although Things to Come (1936) offers a spectacular account of the horrors of mechanized warfare, no one was thinking of the native audience when putting into the mouth of Raymond Massey a description of Britain as "that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery, the last would-be conquerors."
7. Silurian) period, and from rocks of this age predatory fish ( Palaeoniscus and allies) have been recovered.
8. It said that where a dominant enterprise charged prices below the average variable cost, those prices must necessarily be considered predatory, because the enterprise could have no other interest in charging loss-making prices besides the elimination of its competitors.
9. Some of the water authorities are thought likely to attract predatory interest.
10. Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground.
11. The "rodent-run" display takes an entirely different form and is employed especially where the local predatory species are always on the alert for small rats, mice, or lemmings.
12. These animals are frequently attacked by predatory wasps and they divert the killers by wrapping up the remains of insects or egg cocoons and positioning them in their webs.
13. But the thinning thatch and predatory excursions into the line bear the Hare hallmarks.