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filter feeders

filter feeders is the plural 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 feeders

alternative formfilter-feeders

Questions about filter feeders

What is filter feeders the plural of?
Filter feeders is the plural of filter feeder.

Words near filter feeders in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filter feeders (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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