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prefeed

prefeed noun: feed provided prior to some other operation (typically baiting).

Noun

prefeed (uncountable)

  1. Feed provided prior to some other operation (typically baiting).
    • The restricted placement of prefeed does not impede rapid discovery by possums: a field study of the movements of 22 radio collared possums showed that most were immediately attracted from as far away as 250m to a line of prefeed (visits peaking on the second day of prefeed availability), and...2015 July 29, “Aerial Prefeeding Followed by Ground Based Toxic Baiting for More Efficient and Acceptable Poisoning of Invasive Small Mammalian Pests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Verb

prefeed (third-person singular simple present prefeeds, present participle prefeeding, simple past and past participle prefed)

  1. (transitive) To feed material into a machine, etc. in preparation for some process.

Adjective

prefeed (not comparable)

  1. Prior to feeding.

Forms of prefeed

third-person singular presentprefeeds
present participleprefeeding
past participleprefed
pastprefed

Origin of prefeed

From pre- + feed.

Questions about prefeed

What does prefeed mean?
Prefeed means feed provided prior to some other operation (typically baiting).
What part of speech is prefeed?
Prefeed can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.

Words near prefeed in the dictionary

  1. prefectures
  2. prefecturewide
  3. prefecundation
  4. prefed
  5. prefederal
  6. prefeed
  7. prefeeding
  8. prefeeds
  9. prefeminism
  10. prefeminist
  11. prefemoral

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