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Prey :: Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim..

Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Palmerworm :: Palmerworm (n.) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects..

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

Self-devouring :: Self-devouring (a.) Devouring one's self or itself.

Tiger-footed :: Tiger-footed (a.) Hastening to devour; furious.

Scavenger :: Scavenger (v.) A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.

Voraginous :: Voraginous (a.) Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring..

Roseworm :: Roseworm (n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds..

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

Ingurgitate :: Ingurgitate (v. t.) To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle..

Vermivorous :: Vermivorous (a.) Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds..

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread..

Devouringly :: Devouringly (adv.) In a devouring manner.

Aphidivorous :: Aphidivorous () Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.

Mouse :: Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up..

Ravening :: Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves..

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