raptorial

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The team also examined owl and raptorial predators however while the effects were the same, they were not as evident.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

In either case, we clearly have underestimated the abilities of those big, beady, raptorial eyes.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2018

Equipped with grasping, raptorial appendages, these Ordovician hunters plucked up soft-bodied prey and fed it into their camera-shutter mouths.

From Science Magazine • May 25, 2011

This is the case with the large compound eyes,—with the structure of the heart,—with the raptorial feet in Squilla,—and with the powerful, muscular, straightly-extended abdomen in Palaemon, Alpheus, Hippolyte, and the Hermit Crabs.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz

The same is true of the raptorial birds, or birds of prey, which are strong perchers and depend largely for their food supply on clutching their victims while on the wing.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)