reeat

present singular third person reeats · participle present reeating · past reate · participle past reeaten · alternative re-eat · alternative reëat

1. transitiveTo eat again.

   Cecotrophs are formed from the remainder of the digestible material. These are full of nutrients and are passed to the outside to be reeaten by the rabbit.

   2019 April 26, Alleice Summers, Common Diseases of Companion Animals E-Book: Common Diseases of Companion Animals E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 235

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   Fig. 1.4(c) is a nutrient cycle based on leaves which fall into shallow esturine water leaf fragments acted on by saprotrophs and colonised by algae are eaten and reeaten (coprophagy) by a key group of small detritus consumers[…]

   2008, Govind Prasad, Concepts and Issues of Environmental Management, Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, page 5

   The dog reeats its own vomit and the pig once dry returns to the mud: so also Judas, after lamenting for a brief spell the death of the divine mouth, oron, reverts to keen envy.

   2011 November 21 [c. 11 century], Sextus Amarcius, translated by Ronald E. Pepin, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Eupolemius, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 291