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foraging

[ US /ˈfɔɹɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɒɹɪd‍ʒɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of searching for food and provisions

How To Use foraging In A Sentence

  • The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
  • With their proportionally short wings, long legs with robust femora, and large, robust feet (Bennett 2001), azhdarchids were likely to have been even better suited for terrestrial foraging than most other pterodactyloids. Archive 2006-04-01
  • Restricted foraging time due to inclement weather and the resultant decrease in food intake is believed to influence hypothermia in manakins and may induce torpor in hummingbirds.
  • Their central midfield was notable more for foraging than contributions in attack.
  • The exception is a pregnant female out foraging for her nest, who will look healthy and strong, will be moving purposefully and should be left alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • They use a variety of foraging styles; most commonly they glean food from foliage while they climb about on tree limbs.
  • Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
  • When there is an influx of nectar into the nest, the colony deploys more workers for foraging.
  • They are in a foraging and feeding cycle in the same ways that they know when the tide goes in and out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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