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scatterhoard

scatterhoard verb: to hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.

Verb

scatterhoard (third-person singular simple present scatterhoards, present participle scatterhoarding, simple past and past participle scatterhoarded)

  1. (ambitransitive) To hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.
    • The situation is more complex for rodents, which eat some seeds but scatterhoard others in conditions that may aid germination and establishment.2015, Stephen H. Jenkins, Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, page 210

Forms of scatterhoard

third-person singular presentscatterhoards
present participlescatterhoarding
past participlescatterhoarded
pastscatterhoarded

Origin of scatterhoard

From scatter + hoard.

Questions about scatterhoard

What does scatterhoard mean?
Scatterhoard means to hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.
What part of speech is scatterhoard?
Scatterhoard is a verb.
What is the past tense of scatterhoard?
The past tense of scatterhoard is scatterhoarded.

Words near scatterhoard in the dictionary

  1. scattergrams
  2. scattergraph
  3. scattergraphs
  4. scattergun
  5. scatterguns
  6. scatterhoard
  7. scatterhoarded
  8. scatterhoarder
  9. scatterhoarders
  10. scatterhoarding
  11. scatterhoards

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