scavenger

IPA: skˈævʌndʒɝ

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
(UK, obsolete) A street sweeper.
(UK, historical) A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
(chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

Examples of "scavenger" in Sentences

Coyotes are scavengers.
Scavenger watches the happening.
This is a carnivore and a scavenger.
The species is thought to be a scavenger.
The Dubia cockroach is omnivorous and a scavenger.
It is often called the largest scavenger hunt in the world.
It is similar to a scavenger hunt, but the object is to find the haunts.
But it used to, the old frames had revolving scavenger rolls — what they call a scavenger roll, most of them called it a lap stick then.
DURHAM: But it used to, the old frames had revolving scavenger rolls -- what they call a scavenger roll, most of them called it a lap stick then.
So these bones all around here, there's leg bones here, there's leg bones up there, were done by wolves, bears, coyotes, what we call the scavenger community.
Maddy LeMel: Suspended States | LeMel has been called a "scavenger poet," and is known for mixed-media constructions incorporating found objects that are reclaimed and given second lives in pieces created with wire, screen, thread, paper, metal fragments, and a deft articulation of light and space.