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prædator

prædator is the obsolete spelling of predator.

Meaning of predator

Noun

predator (plural predators)

  1. Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
    • Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners: Volume 2, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 73
  2. (informal) Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
    Synonyms:
    vulture
  3. (informal, slang) A sexual predator.

Forms of prædator

pluralprædators

Questions about prædator

What is prædator the obsolete spelling of?
Prædator is the obsolete spelling of predator.

Words near prædator in the dictionary

  1. præcordia
  2. præcordial
  3. præcordium
  4. præcursor
  5. præcursors
  6. prædator
  7. prædators
  8. prædatory
  9. prædecessor
  10. prædecessors
  11. prædestination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prædator (page history and authors); predator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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