Hyphenation of rapacious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word rapacious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ra-pa-cious

Definitions of rapacious:

1.	Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey A predatory bird The rapacious wolf Raptorial birds Ravening wolves A vulturine taste for offal
2.	Excessively greedy and grasping A rapacious divorcee on the prowl Ravening creditors Paying taxes to voracious governments
3.	Devouring or craving food in great quantities Edacious vultures A rapacious appetite Ravenous as wolves Voracious sharks

Synonyms of rapacious:

adj	predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous, aggressive
adj	ravening, voracious, acquisitive
adj	edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish, gluttonous

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Hyphenator

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