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foraging

/fawr-i-jing, for-/US // ˈfɔr ɪ dʒɪŋ, ˈfɒr- //

觅食,觅食行为,觅食类,寻觅

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the acquisition of food by hunting, fishing, or the gathering of plant matter.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or dependent upon the acquisition of food by such means; food-gathering: a foraging people.

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Examples

  • Moreover, the great irony of California’s robust almond industry is that it has, along with other agricultural pursuits, gradually crowded out natural foraging land for bees.

  • The animals were not merely taking advantage of the other’s activities, as happens when fish follow turtles across the seafloor, snapping up critters scattered by their sediment-disturbing foraging.

  • Three months later, Serenity reached her foraging waters along a small island called Farquhar Atoll in the Seychelles archipelago.

  • As for the upper frequency range, “they don’t seem to be using it in a foraging context,” he says.

  • By eavesdropping on their distant neighbors at night, the whales may gather information about foraging conditions elsewhere in their range.

  • Mountain sheep were everywhere, some sleeping by the road, some foraging, bells ringing from their necks as they moved.

  • The children escape but die foraging for food in the wilderness, and die embracing each other.

  • The culprit was a “highly protective” mother bear out foraging with her three cubs.

  • More foraging pressure is being placed on locations with good water quality, as in the case of watercress.

  • The Colombia trip includes foraging from forests outside Bogotá and eyeing orchids in Medellín (not edible).

  • The foraging party were now provided with their lists, and with certain sums to pay for the things they were to get.

  • To escape detection while breaking the orders against foraging, the five men named had stolen from the camp at an early hour.

  • The Cossæi, like the neighbouring mountaineers, are for the most part archers, and are always out on foraging parties.

  • Some of these foraging parties had encounters with the enemy which would, in ordinary times, rank as respectable battles.

  • He had doubtless gone into the stable on a foraging expedition.