Adjective: rapacious ru'pey-shus
- Excessively greedy and grasping
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl";
- ravening, voracious
- Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
"the rapacious wolf";
- predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
- Devouring or craving food in great quantities
"a rapacious appetite";
- edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
See also: acquisitive, aggressive, gluttonous