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prehunting

prehunting adjective: prior to the start of hunting.

Adjective

prehunting (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the start of hunting
    • Therefore, obtaining reliable survival estimates is critical for understanding how prehunting season survival rates affect annual recruitment and thus, pronghorn herd sustainability and associated harvest strategies [7, 10 ].2015 December 3, “Influence of Habitat and Intrinsic Characteristics on Survival of Neonatal Pronghorn”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of prehunting

From pre- + hunting.

Questions about prehunting

What does prehunting mean?
Prehunting means prior to the start of hunting.
What part of speech is prehunting?
Prehunting is an adjective.

Words near prehunting in the dictionary

  1. prehumans
  2. prehumiliation
  3. prehumous
  4. prehumously
  5. prehung
  6. prehunting
  7. prehurricane
  8. prehybridisation
  9. prehybridisations
  10. prehybridised
  11. prehybridization

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