Borrowed fromLatin praedātor praedor ( “ loot, pillage ” ) , frompraeda ( “ booty, spoils, prey ” ) .
predator (plural predators
Anyanimal or otherorganism thathunts andkills other non-plant organisms (theirprey ), primarily forfood .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 73 :Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoidpredators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) ofpredators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.
Someone whoattacks andplunders forgain . Asexual predator . animal or organism that hunts
Afrikaans:roofdier Arabic:مُفْتَرِس m ( muftaris ) ,ضَارٍ m ( ḍārin ) Armenian:գիշատիչ (hy) ( gišatičʻ ) Azerbaijani:yırtıcı (az) Bashkir:йыртҡыс ( yırtqıs ) Belarusian:драпе́жнік ( drapjéžnik ) ,хіжа́к m ( xižák ) Breton:preizher m Bulgarian:хи́щник (bg) m ( híštnik ) Catalan:predador m depredador m Chinese:Mandarin:掠食者 ( lüèshízhě ) ,猛獸 / 猛兽 (zh) ( měngshòu ) ,天敵 / 天敌 (zh) ( tiāndí ) ,終極戰士 / 终极战士 ( Zhōngjí zhànshì ) Czech:dravec m Danish:rovdyr (da) n Dutch:roofdier (nl) n ( but with fish usually ) roofvis (nl) m predator (nl) m ( ecology ) Esperanto:kaperanto Faroese:ránsdjór n ránsdýr n Finnish:saalistaja (fi) ,peto (fi) French:prédateur (fr) m Galician:predador m Georgian:მტაცებელი (ka) ( mṭacebeli ) German:Raubtier (de) n ( but with fish usually ) Raubfisch (de) m Beutegreifer (de) m ( biology ) ,Prädator (de) m ( ecology ) Greek:αρπακτικό (el) n ( arpaktikó ) Hebrew:טוֹרֵף (he) m ( toréf ) Hungarian:ragadozó (hu) Icelandic:rándýr (is) n Indonesian:pemangsa (id) Irish:creachadóir m Italian:predatore (it) m Japanese:天敵 (ja) ( てんてき, tenteki ) Korean:천적 (ko) ( cheonjeok ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:dirinde (ku) ,hov (ku) Latin:praedator m Macedonian:предатор m ( predator ) Maori:konihi Norwegian:Bokmål:rovdyr (no) n Nynorsk:rovdyr n Persian:درنده (fa) ( darande ) Polish:drapieżnik (pl) m Portuguese:predador (pt) m Russian:хи́щник (ru) m ( xíščnik ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:предатор m Roman:predator (sh) m Slovak:dravec (sk) m Slovene:plenilec m ujeda (sl) f ( bird ) Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:rubjažne zwěrje n tergate zwěrje n Southern Altai:барынтычы ( barïntïčï ) Spanish:predador (es) m depredador (es) m Swedish:rovdjur (sv) n predator (sv) c Tatar:ерткыч (tt) ( yertkıç ) Thai:นักล่า ( nák-lâa ) ,ผู้ล่า ( pûu-lâa ) Ukrainian:хижа́к m ( xyžák ) Uyghur:يىرتقۇچ ( yirtquch ) Welsh:rheibiwr m ysglyfaethwr m Zazaki:dırıter dırıtoğ
Borrowed fromLatin praedātor
IPA (key ) : /ˌpreːˈdaː.tɔr/ Hyphenation:pre‧da‧tor predator m plural predatoren
( biology , chiefly zoology ) predator A human predator( criminal, in particular asexual predator ) . Borrowed fromLatin praedator
IPA (key ) : /prědaːtor/ Hyphenation:pre‧da‧tor prèdātor m Cyrillic spelling прѐда̄тор
predator 
