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piranha

DEFINITIONS OF: piranha

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n small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

Synonyms:
caribe, pirana
Type of:
characid, characin, characin fish
any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae

n someone who attacks in search of booty

Synonyms:
marauder, predator, vulture
Types:
moss-trooper
a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland)
Type of:
aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker
someone who attacks
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