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English Dictionary: edacious	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edacious adj devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" Synonym(s): edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Edacious \Eda"cious\, a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.] Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious* Time. --Carlyle. -- {Eda"ciously}, adv. -- {Eda"ciousness}, n.