10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREDATIVE»
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predative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
predative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... prototype predacious adj syn RAPACIOUS 1, predative, predatorial, predatory,
raptorial, vulturine, vulturish, vulturous predate vb syn PRECEDE 2, antecede,
antedate, forerun, pace predative adj syn RAPACIOUS 1, predacious, predatorial
, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Stage 1 predatory; *predative; *predatorial; predacious; *predaceous. For the
sense “preying on other animals,” predatory is the most usual term. *Predative
and *predatorial are rare NEEDLESS VARIANTS. Predacious and *predaceous
might ...
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Oceanography and Marine Biology
Another group of meiobenthic predators, the Acarida, seem to exert some
predative pressure on oligochaetes. Several semi-terrestrial and marine
Gamasida and Halacarida have been observed to suck out marine enchytraeids
and naidids ...
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New Directions in Post-Keynesian Economics
Although Keynes tended to have sympathy with the plight of nervous investors
and antagonism towards speculators who earned predative gains from structural
decline, he clearly saw the situation as a crisis of macro-consciousness that ...
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Interdisciplinary Economics: Kenneth E. Boulding’s ...
It is hard perhaps to think of its many forms and manifestations as populations,
but they do interact in a highly ecological way—sometimes reinforcing each other
, sometimes competing with each other, sometimes in a predative relationship.
Wilfred Dolfsma, Stefan Kesting, 2013
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Women in Love: Easyread Edition
marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative look. Her colourless hair
was untidy, wisps floating down on to her sac coat of dark blue silk, from under
her blue silk hat. She looked like a woman with a monomania, furtive almost, but
...
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DNA Fingerprinting: State of the Science
It should also be taken into consideration that L. perugiae like most teleosts
produce a large surplus of offspring of which only a minute number reaches
maturity due to heavy predative pressure. This may counteract or bias the gene
pool of the ...
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The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories
... her bold, predative eyes. She spoke with a certain foreign stiffness. 'Good
afternoon!' said the girls. 'Which beautiful little lady like to hear her fortune? Give
me her little hand?' She was a tall woman, with a frightening way of reaching
forward ...
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A Dictionary of Entomology
PREDATIVE Adj. (Latin, predaetor I hunter.) Predatory. PREDATOR Noun. (Latin,
predaetor I hunter + -or I one who does something. PL, Predators.) An animal that
overpowers, kills and consumes other animals (prey). Predators constitute one ...
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A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the ...
... strengths, internal tensions, and philosophic depth of the (pre-conquest) Igbo/
African people of Umuofia as they confront, survive, and try to transcend, as does
black America, the predative encroachment of a domination- minded white world
...
Christopher N. Okonkwo, 2008
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREDATIVE»
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predative is used in the context of the following news items.
Snake Imitators Persist
How long can this false logic be perpetuated among the predative species in the absence of any 'real' selective pressure (such as the presence ... «Scientist, Jun 14»
Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony
We are all familiar with the predative nature of the Vikings. The Italians and Germans tried to colonize Africa. And when these nations were not ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Nov 13»
Revisting Yerofeyev's Train Journey to Petushski
You can imagine what the eyes are like where everything is bought and sold — deeply hidden, secretive, predative and frightened. Devaluation ... «The Moscow Times, Oct 13»
