eater : Idioms & Phrases

Ant"-eat`er noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

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• (Zoöl.), the orange filefish.

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• noun colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight; feeds on especially bees
  

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Bee"-eat`er noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) (a) A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors. (b) An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.

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• (Zoöl.), a bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds.

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• . (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. Colloq.

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• noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
  firefighter; fire fighter; fireman.
  
• noun a belligerent grouch
  hothead.
  
• noun a performer who pretends to swallow fire
  fire-swallower.
  

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• one who eats frogs; a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English.

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• noun Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
  honeysucker.
  

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• one who eats but little.

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• noun someone indifferent to the busy world
  stargazer.
  
  • in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence

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Lo"tus-eat`er, Lo"tos-eat`er noun (Also<

• Lotus-eater
• Lotos-eater

)

Definitions

1. (Class. Myth.) One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.

   The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

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• (Zoöl.), a South American bird of the genus Pseudoleistes, allied to the troupials.

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• noun a person who eats human flesh
  anthropophagite; cannibal; anthropophagus.
  
• noun large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
  man-eating shark; great white shark; Carcharodon carcharias; white shark.
  

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Man"-eat`er noun

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagidæ, especially Musophaga violacea. See Turaco. They are allied to the cuckoos.

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• (Zoöl.), the echidna.

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• (Zoöl.), the pangolin.

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• (Zoöl.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra. They feed mainly on seeds.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The secretary bird . (b) An Asiatic antelope; the markhoor.

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• a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The markhoor . (b) The secretary bird.

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• noun a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
  chinook; chinook wind.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.

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• . (Zoöl.) Same as Stone borer, above.

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