edacious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite devouring or craving food in great quantities
    voracious; wolfish; rapacious; esurient; ravenous; ravening.
    • edacious vultures
    • a rapacious appetite
    • ravenous as wolves
    • voracious sharks

WordNet

E*da"cious adjective
Etymology
L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.
Definitions
  1. Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
    Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle.
    -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

Webster 1913