Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What is the noun for scavengers?

What's the noun for scavengers? Here's the word you're looking for.

scavenger
  1. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
  2. An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
  3. (Britain, obsolete) A street sweeper.
  4. (chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The Bearded vulture is a scavenger, but it is the only scavenger that prefers bone marrow to meat.”
      “Searching for insights, the historian becomes almost a scavenger rummaging through heaps of theories produced and then discarded by other disciplines.”
scavage
  1. (historical) A toll or duty anciently exacted from merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc. for goods offered for sale within their precincts.
scavvy
  1. (science fiction, slang) A scavenger; one who looks for discarded objects.
scavvy
  1. (slang) The tropical shrub Scaevola taccada.
scavenging
scavengery
  1. The act of scavenging.
scavager
  1. One who scavages.
scavengering
  1. (dated) scavenging
scavengerings
  1. plural of scavengering
scavengings
scavengers
  1. plural of scavenger
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In less than an hour the assembled scavengers had picked the wildebeest's bones clean.”
      “Before the stallholders could even open the boot, scavengers were on the back seat searching for tarnished gold.”
      “Whilst it has long been thought that eels are scavengers, we now know that in many fisheries eels are active hunters, feeding upon live prey.”
scavagers
  1. plural of scavager
scavages
  1. plural of scavage
scavvies
  1. plural of scavvy
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
10-letter Words Starting With
Find Nouns
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024