Picked at one's food, in an avian metaphor Crossword Clue

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METAPHOR (noun)
1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
AVIAN (adjective)
1. pertaining to or characteristic of birds

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