英语词汇“scavenger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

scav·en·ger

(skăvən-jər)

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.]

单词	scavenger
释义	scav·en·ger (skăvən-jər) 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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