food-gathering
[ food-gath-er-ing ]
adjective
procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
Origin of food-gathering
1First recorded in 1925–30
Words Nearby food-gathering
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How to use food-gathering in a sentence
Thus there are food-gathering individuals, locomotor individuals, sense individuals, and reproductive individuals.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition | Vernon L. Kellogg
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