单词 | scavenger |
释义 | scav·en·ger ![]() n. 1. An animal, such as a vulture or housefly, that feeds on dead or decaying matter. 2. One that scavenges, as a person who searches through refuse for useful items. 3. Chemistry A substance added to a mixture to remove or inactivate impurities. [Alteration of Middle English scauager, schavager, official charged with street maintenance, from Anglo-Norman scawager, toll collector, from scawage, a tax on the goods of foreign merchants, from Flemish scauwen, to look at, show.] |
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