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noun
1.
an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
2.
a person who searches through and collects items from discarded material.
3.
a street cleaner.
4.
Chemistry. a chemical that consumes or renders inactive the impurities in a mixture.
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Scavenger
is always a great word to know.
So is yield. Does it mean:
| a compound capable of changing state or becoming inactive when subjected to heat or radiation |
| the quantity of product formed by the interaction of two or more substances, generally expressed as a percentage |
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- Yahoo has created some promotions for advertisers in the vein of scavenger hunts, he adds, but none as elaborate as this one.
- Students will travel around the world on a visual scavenger hunt.
- Some cite this as evidence that t rex was a scavenger.
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Word Origin & History
scavenger
originally "person hired to remove refuse from streets," from M.E. scawageour (1373), London official in charge of collecting tax on goods sold by foreign merchants, from Anglo-Fr. scawager, from scawage "toll or duty on goods offered for sale in one's precinct" (1402), from O.N.Fr. escauwage "inspection,"
EXPANDfrom a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. scouwon, O.E. sceawian "to look at, inspect," see show). With intrusive -n- (1503) as in harbinger, passenger, messenger. Extended to animals 1596. The verb scavenge is a 1644 back-formation. Scavenger hunt is attested from 1940.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
scavenger  (skāv'ən-jər) Pronunciation Key
An animal that feeds on dead organisms, especially a carnivorous animal that eats dead animals rather than or in addition to hunting live prey. Vultures, hyenas, and wolves are scavengers. |
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scavenger
animal that feeds partly or wholly on the bodies of dead animals. Many invertebrates, such as carrion beetles, live almost entirely on decomposing animal matter. The burying beetles actually enter the dead bodies of small animals before feeding on them underground
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