eater
part of speech
noun (an eater, eaters)
meaning for a pupil
1) A person or animal that eats, often described by how or what it eats: «a fussy eater», «a big eater». tree →
2) (as part of a word) An animal that eats a certain food: «anteater», «meat-eater», «plant-eater». tree →
3) A fire-eater is a performer who pretends to eat fire and breathes out flames at shows. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, animals are grouped by what they eat: plant-eaters (herbivores), meat-eaters (carnivores), and those that eat both (omnivores). In everyday life and health, «a fussy/picky eater» refuses many foods; «a healthy eater» chooses good food. Phrases: «a fussy eater», «a big eater», «a slow eater».
examples
- My brother is a very fussy eater. tree →
- Lions are meat-eaters. tree →
- Cows are plant-eaters. tree →
- The anteater licks up ants with its long tongue. tree →
- Dad is a big eater; he always has seconds. tree →
- A healthy eater has lots of fruit and vegetables. tree →
- She is a slow eater, so she is last to leave the table. tree →
- The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma. tree →
note
Countable: eaters. «An eater» because it starts with a vowel sound. In science, the long words are herbivore (plant-eater), carnivore (meat-eater), omnivore (eats both).
In the corpora
- Lions are meat-eaters and cannot live on grass; hunting is how they feed themselves and their cubs, not cruelty.
- Because energy is lost at each step, there are always far fewer predators than plant-eaters.
- Predators help keep a habitat healthy by stopping plant-eaters from growing too many.
- And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
- Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «eater» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.