predatory animal

1. 1.

   any animal that lives by preying on other animals

   Synonymspredator

   Broaderanimal

   Narrowercarnivore

Questions about predatory animal

What does predatory animal mean?

predatory animal means "any animal that lives by preying on other animals".

What is another word for predatory animal?

Close synonyms include predator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is predatory animal a common word?

predatory animal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.