praedatrix

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

praedātrix, īcis, f. [praedator],

she that plunders , pillages , robs (poet. and in post-class. prose): Herculei praedatrix cedat alumni, i. e. the nymph Dryope , who stole away Hylas, Stat. S. 1, 5, 22.— Adj. : bestia, a beast of prey , Amm. 26, 6, 10: fera, id. 14, 2, 1; 14, 10, 1.