predator

Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

Noun

Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
- Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and...
- So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk. - 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free...
Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
A sexual predator.

Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).