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Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.

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

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..

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

Omnivorous :: Omnivorous (a.) All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zool.), eating both animal and vegetable food..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To devour.

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..

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..

Voracious :: Voracious (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool..

Engorgement :: Engorgement (n.) The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

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..

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

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..

Mouth :: Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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