| 单词 | food-gatherer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfood-gatherer food-gatherer n. (a) Zoology a structure used by an animal to obtain food from its surroundings; (b) Cultural Anthropology a person who obtains food from natural sources rather than through agriculture, hunting, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer gathererc1384 picker1611 puller1653 potato-woman1697 food-gatherer1865 ingatherer1878 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > ancient culture > people of > specific food-gatherer1865 stone-boiler1865 stone-user1915 hunter-gatherer1938 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 153 The pseudopodia are food-gatherers as well as instruments of locomotion. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods iii. 49 Man was entirely at the mercy of nature—a mere scavenger who eked out a miserable existence as a food-gatherer and an eater of shell-fish. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 326/1 The pharyngeal gill slits are vascularized and serve as gas exchangers as well as food gatherers. 2003 APT Bull. 34 54/3 A sequence of six dwelling types..that housed cultures from nomadic food-gatherers and hunters to permanent settlers with an economy of surplus agricultural goods. < as lemmas |
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