predators
USPRED-uh-turz/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚz/UKPRED-uh-tuhz/ˈpɹɛd.ə.təz/
- 1Plural of predator.
Apex predators sit at the top of the food chain.
Many prey species evolved camouflage to evade their predators.
Note
A regular -s plural that keeps every meaning its singular has. In ecological writing it usually names a whole class rather than particular animals, as in apex predators or a species and its predators. The same form also covers people who attack and plunder for gain, and sexual predators, so the surrounding words, not the form itself, tell the reader which predators are meant.
predators is a form of predator
predator, noun: An animal or other organism that hunts and kills other living things, mainly for food. Full entry
- Forms
- predatorpredators plural
- Spelling
- predator → predators: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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