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5 dictionary results for: Predation
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
pre·da·tion       [pri-dey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.depredation; plundering.
2.act of plundering or robbing.
3.predatory behavior.
4.a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < L praedātiōn- (s. of praedātiō) a taking of booty, plundering, equiv. to praedāt(us), ptp. of praedārī to plunder, catch (see predator) + -iōn-]
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pre·da·tion       (prĭ-dā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act or practice of plundering or marauding.
  2. The capturing of prey as a means of maintaining life.


[Middle English predacion, from Latin praedātiō, praedātiōn-, from praedātus, past participle of praedārī, to plunder; see predatory.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
predation 
c.1460, "act of plundering or pillaging," from L. prædationem (nom. prædatio) "a plundering, act of taking booty," from prædari "to rob, to plunder," from præda "plunder, booty, prey" (see prey). Zoological sense recorded from 1932. Predatory is first recorded 1589; of animals, 1668. Predator is from 1922, originally (1840) used of insects that ate other insects. The verb predate "to seek prey" (1974) is a modern back-formation.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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predation

noun
1. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding [syn: depredation] 
2. the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Predation

Pre*da"tion\, n. [L. praedatio, fr. praedari to plunder.] The act of pillaging. --E. Hall.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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