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Feeding :: Feeding (n.) the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening..

Saprophagous :: Saprophagous (a.) Feeding on carrion.

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

Feed :: Feed (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.

Sparrow :: Sparrow (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House..

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..

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

Tether :: Tether (v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits..

Pumpkin :: Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion..

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..

Ophiophagous :: Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..

Saprophytic :: Saprophytic (a.) Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

Nutrication :: Nutrication (n.) The act or manner of feeding.

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

Batrachophagous :: Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.

Augur :: Augur (n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences..

Glandage :: Glandage (n.) A feeding on nuts or mast.

Alpia :: Alpia (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds..

Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.

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