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- noun Plural form of
filterer .
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Examples
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They are immobile “filterers”: they pump water past their gills and filter out the nutrients, which are transported to the mouth by means of small hairs.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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They are immobile “filterers”: they pump water past their gills and filter out the nutrients, which are transported to the mouth by means of small hairs.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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They are immobile “filterers”: they pump water past their gills and filter out the nutrients, which are transported to the mouth by means of small hairs.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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They are immobile “filterers”: they pump water past their gills and filter out the nutrients, which are transported to the mouth by means of small hairs.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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But oyster farmers and scientists say it appears to have had one major side effect: the deaths of large numbers of oysters, water-filterers whose simplicity and sensitivity makes them early indicators of environmental influences that ultimately could hit other marsh dwellers too.
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From the thousands of tweets blazing across Twitter's public timeline, Current TV filterers chose those fitting certain criteria.
Kristin Gorski: New Media Forms Boost Youth Participation In Debates 2008
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Twitter users who knew about "Hack" included the "#current" hashtag in their tweets so that Current filterers could find them more easily.
Kristin Gorski: New Media Forms Boost Youth Participation In Debates 2008
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This point attained, more pipes conduct it to a series of square iron tanks called filterers.
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Again, any particles of dust or other impurities it might contain are caught by the filterers or hairs situated in the nasal cavities for that purpose.
The Young Priest's Keepsake Michael Phelan
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Heavy wads of cloth served as glass in most of the vacant places, but they did not serve well as light filterers.
Her Weight in Gold George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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