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

Raven :: Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.

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

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Engorge :: Engorge (v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.

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

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

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

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..

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

Devourable :: Devourable (a.) That may be devoured.

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

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..

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