Meanings
- not comparableBefore feeding.
prefeeding blood glucose levels
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Near-synonyms: premeal, preprandial, precibal
We investigated a new approach to ground based control that combined aerial distribution of non-toxic ‘prefeed’ baits followed by sparse distribution of toxic baits at regular intervals along the GPS tracked prefeeding flight paths.
2015 July 29, “Aerial Prefeeding Followed by Ground Based Toxic Baiting for More Efficient and Acceptable Poisoning of Invasive Small Mammalian Pests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOISynonyms: premeal, preprandial, precibal · Antonyms: postfeeding, postmeal, postprandial, postcibal, postbreakfast, postlunch, postdinner
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prefeed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBefore feeding.
Origin
By surface analysis, pre- + feed + -ing.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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