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FORAGING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of searching for food and provisions

Synonyms:

forage; foraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("foraging" is a kind of...):

hunt; hunting; search (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

Derivation:

forage (collect or look around for (food))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb forage

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 Context examples: 

Mutualisms are crucial everywhere in nature, but to our knowledge, the only comparable foraging partnership between wild animals and our own species involves free-living dolphins who chase schools of mullet into fishermen’s nets and in so doing manage to catch more for themselves.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)