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peto — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beast noun A large or dangerous four-footed animal.
  • carnivorous adjective Feeding mainly or entirely on the flesh of other animals.
  • fiend noun An evil or demonic being; by extension, a cruel or wicked person.
  • predator noun An animal that survives by hunting and eating other animals.

Senses

peto is used for these senses in English:

  • Beast (biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.
  • beast (often, _, collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.
  • beast A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • beast of prey A carnivorous animal that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates.
  • carnivorous Of, or relating to carnivores, or the taxonomic order Carnivora.
  • carnivorous Predatory or flesh-eating.
  • fiend A very evil person.
  • predator Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

beast — full definition

  1. noun A large or dangerous four-footed animal.
  2. noun A cruel, violent, or uncivilised person.
  3. noun Informally, someone or something remarkably powerful, impressive, or difficult.

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