rapax

rapāx ācis, adj.with comp.and sup.

RAP-, tearing, furious, violent : ventus, O.: unda.—Fig., grasping, greedy, rapacious, insatiable : olim furunculus, nunc vero etiam rapax: Cinara, i. e. greedy for presents , H.: lupi, H.: Orcus, H.: domina, Tb.: nihil est rapacius quam natura.