devourer
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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
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
Are you a devourer of films, or do you prefer to look elsewhere?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2017
“Do I surprise you, Amelia? Betsy, in public the devourer of novels, in secret a woman of great ambition?”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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
Again, it should not be in the great overgrown mammoth-hotel of the town, with three hundred daily devourers, and a steam-engine to slice the bouilli.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
Prosaic men and women, great trenchermen, devourers of huge pasties, mowers down of wine-bottles and beer-tankards, they live with such vitality on the canvases of Hals that you instinctively lower your voice.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
Watch the fruit on the wall trees, and keep off the devourers, of which there will be numberless kinds swarming about them during this month.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
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