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Beet :: Beet (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar..

Granivorous :: Granivorous (a.) Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds..

Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..

Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..

Pasturage :: Pasturage (n.) The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

Carnivorous :: Carnivorous (a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics..

Cocoonery :: Cocoonery (n.) A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons..

Hippophagy :: Hippophagy (n.) The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Meliphagous :: Meliphagous (a.) Eating, or feeding upon, honey..

Myrmotherine :: Myrmotherine (a.) Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

Rhizophagous :: Rhizophagous (a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

Coprophagous :: Coprophagous (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects..

Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..

Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Flesh :: Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time..

Ossivorous :: Ossivorous (a.) Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds..

Feeding :: Feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fee.

Stall-feed :: Stall-feeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stall-fee.

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