FORAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foraging mean? 

• FORAGING (noun)
  The noun FORAGING has 1 sense:

1. the act of searching for food and provisions

  Familiarity information: FORAGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORAGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of searching for food and provisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

forage; foraging

Hypernyms ("foraging" is a kind of...):

hunt; hunting; search (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

Derivation:

forage (collect or look around for (food))

 Context examples 

By observing a partner’s foraging choices, for instance, we learn which foods are valuable and worth choosing.

(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)

The scientists predicted the extent to which foraging rates would drop if different numbers of species disappeared from the ecosystem.

(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)

Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins, and a piece of cheese.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In this village, after the custom of all dogs in all villages, White Fang went foraging, for food.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This foraging partnership was recorded in print as early as 1588, when a Portuguese missionary in what is now Mozambique observed a small brown bird slipping into his church to nibble his wax candles.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If an affordable product like this was available, foraging could become even more popular and possibly safer.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

The event temporarily pushed the fish and squid on which king penguins depend beyond their foraging range.

(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)

They were but a foraging party—a hundred archers and as many men-at-arms—but their leader was Sir Hugh Calverley, and he was not a man to bide idle when good blows were to be had not three leagues from him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, in the early morning, instead of roaming and foraging, or lying in a sheltered nook, he would wait for hours on the cheerless cabin-stoop for a sight of the god's face.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The researchers modeled the effects of biodiversity by analyzing wave strength in conjunction with the foraging abilities of various fish.

(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)