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n. One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for food.

n. An animal, such as a bird or insect, that feeds on dead or decaying matter.

n. Chemistry A substance added to a mixture to remove or inactivate impurities.

n. A street sweeper.

n. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

n. An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.

n. A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

n. 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.

n. An officer whose duty it was to take custom upon the inspection of imported goods, and later also to see that the streets were kept clean. Also scavager.

n. Hence A person whose employment is to clean the streets, etc., of a city or the like, by scraping or sweeping together and carrying off the filth.

n. In cotton-spinning, a child employed to collect the loose cotton lying about the floor or machinery.

n. In entomology, a scavenger-beetle.

n. any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter

n. a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities

n. someone who collects things that have been discarded by others

"So these bones all around here, there's leg bones here, there's leg bones up there, were done by wolves, bears, coyotes, what we call the scavenger community."

chemical agent    hoarder   

lamellicorn scavenger    water scavenger    scavenger cells    scavenger roll    scavenger's daughter   

scavanger crab    scavenger beetle   

predator    vulture    cleaner    cannibal    jackal    hyena    janitor