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eater

/ˈiː.tɚ/ noun B1
  1. A person or animal who eats. · a very fussy eater
  2. A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
  3. A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.

Plural eaters

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He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 87 · B2
They say too--and it is true--that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.
The Jungle Book, p. 3 · B2
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs--frog-eater--fish-killer--he shall hunt thee!
The Jungle Book, p. 6 · B2
Some of ye are eaters of cattle, and of others I have heard that, under Shere Khan’s teaching, ye go by dark night and snatch children from the villager’s doorstep.
The Jungle Book, p. 24 · B2

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