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Devour - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Devourable

That may be devoured...


Devourer

One who or that which devours...


Devouringly

In a devouring manner...


Self devouring

Devouring ones self or itself...


Bollworm

The larva of a moth Heliothis armigera which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant often doing great damage to the crops...


cabbage butterfly

a white butterfly Pieris rapaelig of both Europe and America and the allied Pieris oleracea a native American species which in the larval state devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip See also Cabbage worm below...


Cannibal

A human being that eats human flesh hence any that devours its own kind...


Carabus

A genus of ground beetles including numerous species They devour many injurious insects...


Consume

To destroy as by decomposition dissipation waste or fire to use up to expend to waste to burn up to eat up to devour...


Cormorant

Any species of Phalacrocorax a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak the shag Cormorants devour fish voraciously and have become the emblem of gluttony They are generally black and hence are called sea ravens and coalgeese...


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