Usually means: Organisms that strain food from water.
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  1. filter feeder: Merriam-Webster
  2. filter feeder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. filter feeder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. filter feeder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. filter-feeder, filter feeder: Wiktionary
  6. filter feeder: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. filter feeder: Dictionary.com
  8. Filter-feeder, Filter feeder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. filter feeder: Encyclopedia

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noun:  (biology) Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.

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