What is "scavenges"

Usage examples of "scavenges".

It scavenges in decaying material and is an important predator of cabbage beetles.

But a man who eats, dens, scavenges, and smells like a bear does not become a bear.

They were that variety of creature that scavenges what it consumes and thus cleans up what all others leave behind—except, of course, that G’home Gnomes also cleaned up much of that which was not intended to be left behind in the first place.

They were that variety of creature that scavenges what it consumes and thus cleans up what all others leave behind — except, of course, that G'home Gnomes also cleaned up much of that which was not intended to be left behind in the first place.

Chui-lin insists the plasma itself scavenges the chambers and that the fault must be the multilayer mirrors themselves despite the sapphire coating.