a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

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These cooks court danger, foraging over windswept dunes and fragile.

Numerical study of foraging behavior with short and long range movement in heterogeneous environments.

Every rubbish skip has ragged children in it, foraging for lunch.

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These cooks court danger, foraging over windswept dunes and fragile.

Numerical study of foraging behavior with short and long range movement in heterogeneous environments.

Every rubbish skip has ragged children in it, foraging for lunch.

Foraging can be a risky business: in some municipalities, it's not allowed in public parks.

As children paddle about in the shallows, foraging for shells and other treasures, dead and.

They are red-crowned cranes, two adults and a chick, foraging among ordered bristles of rice stalks.

Decorating your house for the holidays is as easy as foraging in your own backyard.

Partner penguins didn't compensate by spending more time foraging for food or bringing back extra fish.

The deputies say that at night pet dogs join the packs revert to their basic instincts, and help in the foraging.

For humans, senior females provide extra foraging power and child-rearing skills.

The male goes foraging for two weeks, returns, and then the female goes foraging for about the same amount of time.

Theories about foraging say that animals should stick with the proverbial bird in the hand, especially when it comes to food.

Foraging people everywhere ate what was available to them.

They spend a lot of their time foraging for food but the males also spend quite a bit of time patrolling their territory.

Even as the foraging grows thin, the roots of hardy burdock make a perfect winter vegetable.

Man's habitat at the outset was dominated by the need to find food, and hunting and foraging were rural pursuits.

Urban found that foraging activity varied greatly from pond to pond.

Fires in these areas seemed to boost their foraging success.

Mann mimicked the dolphins by placing marine sponges over poles and foraging across the seafloor.

The war allegedly started because a foraging pig ruined a garden.

When the dominant male and female went foraging for.

The quest for new food items is popular anyway, and foraging has become a gourmet hobby.

Elk are the species whose foraging habits overlap those of wild horses.

Nimbly moving across rocky heights, mountain goats appear to defy gravity in their foraging.

Higher temperatures in spring mean that the animals spend less of the breeding season out foraging and more time in the shade.

Living up to their name, lesser pandas are about as small as large housecats and keep a low profile, foraging mainly by night.

Presumably the change in appearance tricks foraging birds into eating the otherwise unappetizing ants-parasites and all.

But the new research may eliminate sophisticated foraging skills from the list of potential advantages unique to humans.

They have to dig over great distances when foraging for bulbs and roots, and then have to find their way home again.

Researchers are tagging humpback whales to gain a clearer picture of their underwater habits and foraging strategies.

Biologists believe the advantage birds gain by foraging in a mixed flock is primarily one of protection against predators.

Cypriot hippos had low-slung nostrils better suited to foraging on land.

Foraging for food on some islands does not mean going down to the corner supermarket and buying a dozen fresh eggs.

His mission: to learn more about the sharks' foraging behavior and where they spend their time.

The blue-gray gnatcatcher is active, often foraging in trees or shrubs.

Crittercam found that loggerheads spend up to two hours diving and foraging at the ocean bottom for food.

The hedgehog was named because of its peculiar foraging methods.

Foraging birds excavate large, rectangular holes in trunks and logs.

The idea is to try and put them on animals that are feeding in the same group and get the multiple foraging strategy".

Crittercam found that loggerheads spend up to two hours diving and foraging at the seafloor for food.

Requires open ground for foraging and some dense vegetation or edge for nesting.

While a few individuals guard the group, the rest busy themselves foraging for the foods that make up their varied diet.

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noun

food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.

the seeking or obtaining of such food.

the act of searching for provisions of any kind.

a raid.

verb (used without object)

to wander or go in search of provisions.

to search about; seek; rummage; hunt: He went foraging in the attic for old mementos.

to make a raid.

verb (used with object)

to collect forage from; strip of supplies; plunder: to forage the countryside.

to supply with forage.

10.

to obtain by foraging.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Old French fourrage, derivative of fuerre fodder (< Gmc)

Related forms

for·ag·er, noun

un·for·aged, adjective

Synonyms
1. See feed.

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Word Origin & History

forage

early 14c., from O.Fr. forage, from fuerre "fodder, straw," from Frankish *fodr "food" (cf. O.H.G. fuotar, O.E. fodor); see fodder. The verb is first recorded early 15c. Related: Foraged; forager; foraging.

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