Definition of feeding

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Feeding (n.) That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land..

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Pabulation :: Pabulation (n.) The act of feeding, or providing food..
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
Ant Thrush :: Ant thrush () One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep..
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..
Pannage :: Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
Shepherd :: Shepherd (n.) A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large..
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
Batrachophagous :: Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.
Meliphagous :: Meliphagous (a.) Eating, or feeding upon, honey..
Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..
Phytivorous :: Phytivorous (a.) Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals..
Pupivorous :: Pupivorous (a.) Feeding on the pupae of insects.
Pasturage :: Pasturage (n.) The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..
Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..
Saprophytic :: Saprophytic (a.) Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish..
Glandage :: Glandage (n.) A feeding on nuts or mast.
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