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scatterhoarding

scatterhoarding is the present participle and gerund of scatterhoard.

Meaning of scatterhoard

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

Questions about scatterhoarding

What is scatterhoarding the present participle and gerund of?
Scatterhoarding is the present participle and gerund of scatterhoard.

Words near scatterhoarding in the dictionary

  1. scatterguns
  2. scatterhoard
  3. scatterhoarded
  4. scatterhoarder
  5. scatterhoarders
  6. scatterhoarding
  7. scatterhoards
  8. scattering
  9. scattering function
  10. scattering functions
  11. scatteringly

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