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Feeder

One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.

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Broader term 9

Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Branch 76% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Consumer 76% connected

One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Machine 76% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Devourer 76% connected

One who, or that which, devours.

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Diner 76% connected

One who dines.

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Dunker 76% connected

One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers,…

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Glutton 76% connected

One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.

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Gobbler 76% connected

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

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Gourmand 76% connected

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand.

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Picnicker 76% connected

One who takes part in a picnic.

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Scoffer 76% connected

One who scoffs.

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Vegetarian 76% connected

One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

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Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Synonym 4

Affluent 92% connected

Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

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Confluent 92% connected

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

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Eater 92% connected

One who, or that which, eats.

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Tributary 92% connected

Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peac…

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