predator: alternatives and connections

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

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An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Assailing; attacking.

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One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

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One who attacks.

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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One of the Carnivora.

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A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.

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Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.

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