Какво означава scavenger на английски?

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scavenger Значение & определение

0 a bird or an animal that feeds on dead animals that it has not killed itself:
- Most dead birds are picked up by crows or other scavengers.
- An urban fox is a harmless scavenger which, when it can't find other sources of food, will prey on small mammals.
- She earns her living as a scavenger at the city dump.
- Then scavengers came and dug up the metals worth selling.
1 an animal, bird, or person who scavenges

Vultures are scavengers.
The fish die, their corpses pile up and rot, leaching vital nutrients back into the water and, through maggots and scavengers, onto the land.
Homeless children subsist as scavengers in garbage dumps.
Going after scavengers is far from one of the Los Angeles Police Department's top priorities.
Probably implanted oxygen ions act as scavengers of electrons or of atomic and molecular hydrogen, promoting the formation of water molecular fragments.
Free radical scavengers ameliorate the 2-cell block in mouse embryo culture.
Photocatalytic oxidation of organic substrates requires an electron acceptor, light of the proper wavelength, and low concentrations of catalyst fouling agents or interfering radical scavengers.
A way of reducing these administrative costs is to target the subsidy to organized scavengers groups.