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filter feeder

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filter feeder
n.
An aquatic animal, such as a clam, barnacle, or sponge, that feeds by filtering particulate organic material from water.
filter 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.


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Zebra mussels, those tiny filter feeders from abroad that now infest many U.
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These small cetaceans therefore tend to accumulate higher loads of pollutants such as mercury than do filter feeders such as baleen whales.
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However, the newly discovered sieve-like structure suggests that Gallimimus should be crowned as the all-time largest known terrestrial filter feeder.
New fossil sheds light on dinosaurs' diet by Perkins, S. / Science News
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