difine the term scavengers??
Answers
An animal which feeds on dead and decaying organic matter.
Explanation:
noun
plural noun: scavengers
1.
an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.
"carcasses are usually quickly disposed of by scavengers"
2.
a person who searches for and collects discarded items.
"a reputation as a scavenger of discarded odds and ends"
3.
ARCHAIC
a person employed to clean the streets.
4.
CHEMISTRY
a substance that reacts with and removes particular molecules, groups, etc.
"4-aminosalicylic acid is not an effective free radical scavenger"
Origin
mid 16th century: alteration of earlier scavager, from Anglo-Norman French scawager, from Old Northern French escauwer ‘inspect’, from Flemish scauwen ‘to show’. The term originally denoted an officer who collected scavage, a toll on foreign merchants' goods offered for sale in a town, later a person who kept the streets clean.