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scatterhoards

scatterhoards is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 scatterhoards

What is scatterhoards the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scatterhoards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scatterhoard.

Words near scatterhoards in the dictionary

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

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