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filter feeder

filter feeder noun: any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.

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

filter feeder meaning in Tamil

filter feeder in Tamil

வடிகட்டி உண்பவை

Forms of filter feeder

pluralfilter feeders
alternative formfilter-feeder

Words formed from filter feeder

  • filter feed

Questions about filter feeder

What does filter feeder mean?
Filter feeder means any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.
What is filter feeder in Tamil?
Filter feeder in Tamil is வடிகட்டி உண்பவை. See Filter feeder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is filter feeder?
Filter feeder is a noun.
What is the plural of filter feeder?
The plural of filter feeder is filter feeders.

Words near filter feeder in the dictionary

  1. filter cakes
  2. filter card
  3. filter cards
  4. filter coffee
  5. filter down
  6. filter feeder
  7. filter feeders
  8. filter funnel
  9. filter funnels
  10. filter in turn
  11. filter lane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filter feeder (page history and authors); filter feeder (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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