They occur in cool running waters and are predaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference
Was this predaceous female looking for another husband?. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
One of these is predaceous, brutal; the other ideal, humane. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Most larvae are predaceous and feed on most other small invertebrates. From Wordnik.com. [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference
The predaceous aquatic larvæ of many insects feed freely on wrigglers. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
These servants of a predaceous principle are nearly, if not quite, its earliest prey. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
They are predaceous and usually feed on the insect larvae which they parasitized as larvae. From Wordnik.com. [Arthropoda] Reference
Some mosquito larvæ are predaceous, feeding on the young of other species or on other insects. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
Will you give up this continent, territory, Free States and all, to our predaceous, blood-eating system?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Fortunately weather conditions together with parasitic and predaceous insects hold them more or less in check. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
On the contrary, the predaceous cephalopods and the highly organized crustaceous are among the oldest fossils. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
Adults and deutonymphs are predaceous and often feed upon the immature stages of the species that they parasitize as larvae. From Wordnik.com. [Arthropoda] Reference
We should have to depend upon a few predaceous beetles, the bats, and upon the sprayers and squirtguns which throw insecticides. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
The same may be said of the Sarebus tribe (the most predaceous and wild on the coast), which has powerful branches of the original stock on the Skarran river. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
It is interesting to note that the larvæ of some mosquitoes are themselves predaceous and feed freely on the other wrigglers that may chance to be in the same locality. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
The predaceous rascal came, as usual, in the latter half of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
The largest predaceous quadrupeds living today are the lion and tiger. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
Thus was a graminivorous animal nurtured by a carnivorous and predaceous one!. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference
It is only among marine animals that we find predaceous types of such gigantic size. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
Fastened to his clout were four awful exhibits of his predaceous success -- four scalps. From Wordnik.com. [A Virginia Scout] Reference
It is as ancillary to the predaceous impulse proper that the belief in luck expresses itself in a wager. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The two barbarian traits, ferocity and astuteness, go to make up the predaceous temper or spiritual attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The suggestion has also been made that these giant carnivores were carrion-eaters rather than truly predaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
She was an honest woman with a religious oneness of aim, and such are not the ladies for predaceous holluschickies. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
Brontosaurus and its allies as aquatic -- the predaceous kinds equalled or exceeded the largest of the herbivorous sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
A homely and familiar fact may serve to show that the predaceous impulse does not prevail in the same degree in all classes. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The entomology here resembled that of Europe, more than I had expected in a tropical country, where predaceous beetles, at least. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
It was so that the gregarious animals had overcome the predaceous; it was so, in human history, that the people had mastered the kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle] Reference
Hart dissected the stomach of a woman of thirty which resembled the stomach of a predaceous bird, with patches of tendon on its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
As to its probable habits, it is safe to infer (see p. 33), that it was predaceous, active and powerful, and adapted to terrestrial life. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference
While novice gardeners may be unfamiliar with the label "predaceous insects", chances are they have long been familiar with some of the insects bearing the label. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Prime minister wants sing-off among Russia, Central Asia and China.] Reference
The species increases far beyond the powers of predaceous birds or beasts to check, and the Rabbits after 7 or 8 years of this are multiplied into untold millions. From Wordnik.com. [The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake] Reference
Among the "protected" insects are the milkweed butterflies and their caterpillars, which are provided with secretions that are distasteful to birds and predaceous insects. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
After denouncing the predaceous Interests he relapsed into an attitude of Meditation, with the Chin on the starched Front, very much like a Steel Engraving of Daniel Webster. From Wordnik.com. [Ade's Fables] Reference
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