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Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..

Carabus :: Carabus (n.) A genus of ground beetles, including numerous species. They devour many injurious insects..

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

Devoration :: Devoration (n.) The act of devouring.

Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour..

Lamia :: Lamia (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch..

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

Edacious :: Edacious (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

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

Cannibal :: Cannibal (n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind..

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

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.

Devourer :: Devourer (n.) One who, or that which, devours..

Ravenous :: Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture..

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

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..

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

Aurivorous :: Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.

Monitor :: Monitor (n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long..

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..

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