单词 | filter feeder |
释义 | filter feedernounan aquatic animal that feeds on particles or small organisms strained out of water by circulating them through its system: includes most of the stationary feeders, as clams, oysters, barnacles, corals, sea squirts, and sponges. Origin of filter feederFirst recorded in 1925–30 Words nearby filter feederfilterable virus, filter bed, filter bubble, filter cake, filter factor, filter feeder, filter feeding, filtering operation, filter out, filter paper, filter press Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Scientific definitions for filter feederfilter feeder An aquatic animal, such as a clam or sponge, that feeds by filtering tiny organisms or fine particles of organic material from currents of water that pass through it. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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