Main entry: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, esurient, wolfish, voracious
Definition: devouring or craving food in great quantities
Usage: edacious vultures; a rapacious appetite; ravenous as wolves; voracious sharks
Main entry: rapacious, ravening, voracious
Definition: excessively greedy and grasping
Usage: a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments
Main entry: vulturine, vulturous, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening
Definition: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
Usage: a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal