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filter-feeder

filter-feeder is the alternative spelling of filter feeder.

Meaning of filter feeder

Noun

filter feeder (plural filter feeders)

  1. Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.
    • The best-protected species are the big, peaceful filter feeders, the basking shark and particularly the whale shark, with its photogenic polka dots and mysterious long-range migration patterns.2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15

Forms of filter-feeder

pluralfilter-feeders

Questions about filter-feeder

What is filter-feeder the alternative spelling of?
Filter-feeder is the alternative spelling of filter feeder.

Words near filter-feeder in the dictionary

  1. filter tip
  2. filter tips
  3. filter tube
  4. filter tubes
  5. filter up
  6. filter-feeder
  7. filter-feeders
  8. filterabilities
  9. filterability
  10. filterable
  11. filterates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filter-feeder (page history and authors); filter feeder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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