scavenger : Idioms & Phrases

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Scavanger crab

  • (Zoöl.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab.
Webster 1913

Scavenger beetle

  • (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle.
Webster 1913

scavenger cell

  • noun a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms
    phagocyte.
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Scavenger's daughter

  • corrupt. of Skevington's daughter, an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from nostrils. and sometimes from the hands and feet.
Webster 1913