WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
fil′ter feed′er,
- Ecologyan aquatic animal that feeds on particles or small organisms strained out of water by circulating them through its system: includes most of the stationary feeders, as clams, oysters, barnacles, corals, sea squirts, and sponges.
- 1925–30
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