ravening

adjective

1. 1

   devouring or craving food in great quantities

   edacious vultures

   a rapacious appetite

2. 2

   excessively greedy and grasping

   a rapacious divorcee on the prowl

   ravening creditors

3. 3

   living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

   a predatory bird

   the rapacious wolf