(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
(5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
(12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
(18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
Frugivorous
Definition:
(a.) Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) These specializations may be interpreted as adaptation toward a more herbivorous-frugivorous diet.
(2) During the later Palaeocene and early Miocene, catarrhine primates and the evolving hominoids had adaptations for frugivorous diets, with the emphasis on soft foods.
(3) The morphology and density of neurons in the cerebellum, caudate nucleus, olfactory mitral stratum, and neocortical layer II suggest that there exists an initial delay in development in the frugivorous bat; through subsequent reordering, however, it becomes more advanced in development, in accordance with the more progressive status of the adult forms in its category.
(4) The pepsin activity is higher in the proventriculus of the carnivorous L. schach and the omnivorous A. tristis than in the frugivorous P. krameri.
(5) Other folivorous Malagasy strepsirhines also tend to have long shearing crests than frugivorous forms.
(6) In both sexes, the body weight adjusted mean incisor width of folivores was significantly smaller than that of either frugivores or omnivores.
(7) Given their large size relative to other arboreal frugivores, seed predation could provide a dietary niche for Old World monkeys.
(8) Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae) is a frugivorous bat that emits low-intensity, broadband, frequency-modulated echolocation pulses through nostrils surrounded by a noseleaf.
(9) The histomorphology of the gastric apparatus, the pepsin level and the optimum pH for pepsin were investigated in Psittacula krameri (frugivore), Lanius schach (carnivore) and Acridotheres tristis (omnivore) species of birds.
(10) Eight anticoagulant rodenticides were used against Rattus norvegicus, R. r. frugivorous and Muss musculus.
(11) The development of the main brain components in two fetal bats (one insectivorous and one frugivorous type) is studied quantitatively and comparatively.
(12) On the other hand, L. f. mayottensis is more generalized dietarily (the parts of 12 plant species accounting for 90% of feeding time), and is primarily frugivorous (64% of feeding time spent eating fruit, with a monthly maximum during the wet season of 79%.
(13) In addition, there are no diurnal sympatric primate frugivores.
(14) The telencephalon, cerebellum, and diencephalon grow faster in the frugivorous bat.
(15) The percentage reaction force during incisal biting is lower in man than in the other primates, and lower in the frugivorous primates than in the macaque.
(16) With these MAbs we have examined rabies viruses from vampire, insectivorous and frugivorous bats from the Americas, Africa, Europe and the Soviet Union and have compared them with isolates from terrestrial species including man.
(17) On the other hand, mean indices of the lateral geniculate body distinguish between three groups : the Megachiroptera (mean 869); the frugivorous and nectarivorous Microchiroptera (mean 293); the insect-eating, blood sucking, and fish eating Microchiroptera (mean 135).
(18) Folivorous primates occupy smaller home range areas for their body weight than do frugivores and omnivores.
(19) The fungus was not found in 581 other bats representing R. hardwickei hardwickei, three more insectivorous and one frugivorous species investigated from several sites in Delhi and New Delhi metropolitan areas.
(20) These characteristics are not as pronounced in the less herbivorous rhesus, even less so in the frugivorous capuchin and the least in the insectivorous marmoset.