devourer
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devourers
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That species is the zombie worm, formally known as "the bone devourer" Osedax.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025
In comic books, Galactus is known as the devourer of worlds.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
In Egyptian mythology, Ammit, or Ammut, is described as a monstrous deity and the devourer of hearts and the dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
The devourer of young adult and coming-of-age novels wanted more than her group’s sporadic get-togethers could deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2018
“My name is Ammut, and I’m a demon, devourer of the dead.”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
This realizes what Joan Didion describes in her 2000 New Yorker essay about the “unusual bonding” and “proprietary intimacy” Stewart creates with us — her people, her consumers, her devourers.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Within hours the locusts are transformed from solitary plant eaters to synchronized, swarming cannibalistic devourers of their brethren.
From Salon ● May 30, 2021
Both chub and squaw fish are great devourers of fry.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Thomas Wilson Lambert
His notions may be summed up thus: universal death necessitates universal sepulture; the devourers are the sextons of the system of nature.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
And so he was swift and ready to shoot the buzzards and the royal sparhawks that were devourers of this poor folk.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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