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Word: Scavenger
Speech Type: Noun
mid 16th century: alteration of earlier scavager, from Anglo-Norman French scawager, from Old Northern French escauwer ‘inspect’, from Flemish scauwen ‘to show’. The term originally denoted an officer who collected scavage, a toll on foreign merchants' goods offered for sale in a town, later a person who kept the streets clean
ˈskav(ɪ)n(d)ʒə
an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
Short Definition:animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material
Examples:- carcasses are usually quickly disposed of by scavengers
- foxes are great scavengers
a person who searches for and collects discarded items
Short Definition:person who searches for and collects discarded items
Examples:- a reputation as a scavenger of discarded odds and ends
a person employed to clean the streets.
Short Definition:person employed to clean streets
a substance that reacts with and removes particular molecules, groups, etc.
Short Definition:substance that reacts with and removes particular molecules
Examples:- 4-aminosalicylic acid is not an effective free radical scavenger
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