(n.) The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
(n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
(v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
(v. t.) To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(2) These percentages suggest that a better fermentation took place in those silages containing forages.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
(7) Results of trials designed to determine forage production at various stocking densities may not reflect the nutritive value of the forage, but instead the severity of parasite exposure.
(8) Masticated forages followed trends similar to those of nonmasticated forages, but the effect of mastication was not consistent.
(9) Length, size, and interval between eating bouts were determined for four forages with two lactating dairy cows.
(10) The present analysis underscores the point that metabolic rate, like foraging behavior, should be thought of as evolutionarily labile.
(11) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(12) Sheep placed near a highway and fed with forage from an uncontaminated area showed an increase of lead levels in the blood, comparable to that of the previous experiment.
(13) An increased cancer incidence has also been found in geographical areas with low selenium contents in forage crops (Shamberger et al 1976).
(14) An enzymatic procedure using Trichoderma viride carbohydrases, a fungal hemicellulase, and pepsin was developed to provide a laboratory method for predicting forage digestibility.
(15) Since there exist transitory forms between diametrically opposite manifestations of such behavior, possibly the process of individual acquirement of capabilities necessary for fulfilling foraging function occurs.
(16) Comparisons of these ancient Sri Lankans with other prehistoric skeletal series from South Asia and elsewhere support the hypothesis that muscular-skeletal robusticity was a significant physical adaptation of earlier hunting-foraging populations.
(17) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(18) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(19) Four crossbred wether lambs (38 kg) with permanent ruminal and abomasal cannulae were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of feeding frequency (FF) on forage fiber and N utilization.
(20) In Experiment 2, 17 mature Holstein cows were used in an identical design except that alfalfa haylage was used as the forage.
Pannage
Definition:
(n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.
(n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.