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scavenger 音标拼音: [sk'ævəndʒɚ]
n. 清道夫;食腐肉的动物 清道夫;食腐肉的动物 scavenger清除器; 净化剂 scavenger n 1: a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities 2: someone who collects things that have been discarded by others [ synonym: { magpie}, { scavenger}, { pack rat}] 3: any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matterScavenger \ Scav" en* ger\, n. [ OE. scavager an officer with various duties, originally attending to scavage, fr. OE. & E. scavage. See { Scavage}, { Show}, v.] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. [ 1913 Webster] { Scavenger beetle} ( Zool.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. { Scavenger crab} ( Zool.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. { Scavenger' s daughter} [ corrupt. of Skevington' s daughter], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. -- Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster] 34 Moby Thesaurus words for " scavenger": amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, chimney sweep, cleanser, cosmopolite, crossing sweeper, feline, flue cleaner, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, street sweeper, sweep, sweeper, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, whitewing
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