food-gathering

[ food-gath-er-ing ]

adjective

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of food-gathering¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Thus there are food-gathering individuals, locomotor individuals, sense individuals, and reproductive individuals.

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