different between feeding vs oligophagy
feeding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?d??/
- Rhymes: -i?d??
Verb
feeding
- present participle of feed
Noun
feeding (plural feedings)
- An instance of giving food.
- 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
- […] they are nevertheless always like the lion's keeper, who, when by long patience, a thousand feedings, and a thousand clawings, he hath made a fierce lion familiar, yet never gives him meat, but with pulling back his hand, always in fear […]
- 1750, The Universal Magazine (volume 7, page 52)
- An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
- (dated) That which is eaten; food.
- (dated) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
- The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- feigned
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oligophagy
English
Etymology
From oligo- +? -phagy
Noun
oligophagy (uncountable)
- feeding on few specific types of food (e.g. a single plant genus or family)
Related terms
- oligophage
- oligophagous
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