apex predator
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.41 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An animal atop the food chain, preying on another animals, and not itself preyed upon.
Example Sentences
- "a. 2007, Martha Hiatt, quoted in, 2007, Wendell Jamieson, Father Knows Less, or, "Can I cook my sister?", Putnam, →ISBN, page 203, Killer whales are the oceans' apex predators, which means they are at the top of the food chain."
- "And marijuana is not a Schedule I any more than a hedgehog is an apex predator. “You’re not scaring anyone, Roland. Get a tattoo.”"
- "With a bite that could split a shark in two and an armored mug only a mother could love, Dunkleosteus was one of Earth’s earliest apex predators, terrorizing subtropical seas 360 million years ago during the Devonian Period."
- "Alessi did as he was told, and I found out later that [Ghislaine] Maxwell got out and followed me. I didn’t know it yet, but an apex predator was closing in."