Definition of "raptorial" [rap•to•ri•al]

• Subsisting by seizing prey; predatory. (adjective)
• Adapted for the seizing of prey. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds of prey. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In other fine raptorial news, the falcons are also back on the Traveler's Tower in Hartford, and they have three eggs."
• "Klinsmann needs US Soccer to pursue an agenda that develops raptorial talent in the school of young players coming through."
• "There were more birds in the air now; not only raptors of bondbird breeding, who had come to the Vale in answer to some unspoken call, but small, colorful creatures in feathered harlequin coats of red, blue, green, and yellow, with raptorial hooked bills and an uncanny ability to mimic human voices."