Wednesday Word: Rapacious

rapacious |rəˈpāSHəs| adjectiveaggressively greedy or grasping: rapaciouslandlords.DERIVATIVES rapaciously adverb.rapaciousness nounORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latinrapax, rapac- (from rapere ‘to snatch’) + -ious.This word makes me think of carnivorous dinosaurs.