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

Adj. taking &c. v.; privative†, prehensile; predaceous, predal†, predatory, predatorial†; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic. bereft &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Throughout its range the brush rabbit is closely associated with—in fact, lives in—the chaparral that is dense enough to afford protection from raptorial birds and the larger carnivorous mammals.

From A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)