predation
pronunciation
How to pronounce predation in British English:
UK [prɪˈdeɪʃn]
How to pronounce predation in American English:
US [prɪˈdeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
Word Origin
- predation (n.)
- late 15c., "act of plundering or pillaging," from Latin praedationem (nominative praedatio) "a plundering, act of taking booty," from praedari "to rob, to plunder," from praeda "plunder, booty, prey" (see prey (n.)). Zoological sense recorded from 1907.
Example
- 1. It 's one of the basic processes that ecologists study , along with predation and competition .
- 2. Palmer says wildlife filmmakers are trained to look for the " money shot , " a dramatic scene of predation or copulation , for example .
- 3. Establishing that a firm is guilty of predation is difficult .
- 4. Before civilisation intervened , such chronic loneliness would have been so rare ( because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation ) that evolution would have ignored it .
- 5. Most students of ageing agree that an animal 's maximum lifespan is set by how long it can reasonably expect to escape predation , disease , accident and damaging aggression by others of its kind .