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单词 scavenger
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
scav•en•ger /ˈskævɪndʒɚ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Ecologyone that feeds on dead organic matter.
  2. one who scavenges for useful material.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
scav•en•ger  (skavin jər),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Ecologyan 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. Chemistrya chemical that consumes or renders inactive the impurities in a mixture.
  • Middle Dutch schauwen to look at (cognate with show) + -age -age) + -eour -or2
  • Anglo-French scawageour, equivalent. to (e)scawage inspection (escaw(er) to inspect
  • earlier scavager 1520–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
scavenger /ˈskævɪndʒə/ n
  1. a person who collects things discarded by others
  2. any animal that feeds on decaying organic matter, esp on refuse
  3. a person employed to clean the streets
Etymology: 16th Century: from Anglo-Norman scawager, from Old Norman French escauwage examination, from escauwer to scrutinize, of Germanic origin; related to Flemish scauwen

ˈscavengery n
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