1. raptorial(a = adj.pert) - relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey"
Derived form noun raptor1
2. raptorial(s = adj.all) predatory, rapacious, ravening, vulturine, vulturous - living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
Derived form noun raptor1
Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds. [1913 Webster]
raptorial, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a bird or animal) adapted for seizing prey; predatory.
--n.
1 = RAPTOR.
2 a predatory animal.
Etymology:
L raptor: see RAPTOR
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N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.