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Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Limosis :: Limosis (n.) A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire..

Flock :: Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl..

Sharp-set :: Sharp-set (a.) Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set..

Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

Intravenous :: Intravenous (a.) Within the veins.

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..

Predatory :: Predatory (a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits..

Ravin :: Ravin (a.) Ravenous.

Gourmand :: Gourmand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three..

Edacity :: Edacity (n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

Greedy :: Greedy (superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey..

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..

Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

Gormand :: Gormand (n.) A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Lupine :: Lupine (n.) Wolfish; ravenous.

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