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wild feed

wild feed noun: uncultivated food sources.

Noun

wild feed (countable and uncountable, plural wild feeds)

  1. Uncultivated food sources.
    • There's probably enough wild feed for them growing around the place you're going.2004, Billijo Doll, The Seekers, →ISBN, page 72
    • Llamas typically carry smaller loads than horses and mules and cannot be pushed as hard, but they are trained to walk untethered in a caravan and can subsist on local wild feed.2016, José M. Capriles, Nicholas Tripcevich, The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism, →ISBN, page 212
  2. A private satellite transmission of broadcast material, not meant for public viewing.
    • Framestores avoid the danger of genlocking the studio to an outside source and add a smoothness to switching in or overlaying the wild feed without picture breakup.1977, Broadcast Engineering - Volume 19, page 48
    • Kavin Rafferty and James Ridgeway;s documentary is an invaluable look at the early days of the 1992 presidential election through a collection of wild feeds, affording us glimpses of the real men behind the well-crafted facades they present to the public.2002, Tom Wiener, The Off-Hollywood Film Guide, →ISBN

Verb

wild feed (third-person singular simple present wild feeds, present participle wild feeding, simple past and past participle wild fed)

  1. To forage for food in the wild; to eat from naturally occurring sources rather than domestically-produced food.
    • Hence, although an animal is able to maximize its energy gain from provisioning to an extent impossible in wild feeding, when energy returns decrease in relation to greater social stress it may no longer be profitable for an animal to stay around the provisioning site.2012, H.O. Box, Primate Responses to Environmental Change, →ISBN, page 154
    • The birds were wild feeding on the bait that the bonito were scaring the bait out.2013, Vernona Kay “Snookie” Fath, A Local Pacific Piscatologist: A Lifetime of Fishing, →ISBN, page 95

Examples of wild feed in a sentence

  • She was watching the wild feed from Paris on the last day of September.2013, Vanessa Grant, Yesterday's Vows, →ISBN:
  • Although crustacean parts are common in king crab stomachs, evidence of cannibalism is scarce in studies of wild feeding.2014, Bradley G. Stevens, King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management, →ISBN, page 341:

Forms of wild feed

Noun
pluralwild feeds
alternative formwildfeed
Verb
third-person singular presentwild feeds
present participlewild feeding
past participlewild fed
pastwild fed

Questions about wild feed

What does wild feed mean?
Wild feed means uncultivated food sources.
How do you use wild feed in a sentence?
She was watching the wild feed from Paris on the last day of September.
What part of speech is wild feed?
Wild feed can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wild feed?
The plural of wild feed is wild feeds.

Words near wild feed in the dictionary

  1. wild eggplant
  2. wild eggplants
  3. wild endive
  4. wild endives
  5. wild fed
  6. wild feed
  7. wild feeding
  8. wild feeds
  9. Wild Fields
  10. wild flax
  11. wild flaxes

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