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Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
Harry Johnston

Meaning of "feeding grounds" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FEEDING GROUNDS

feeding grounds  [ˈfiːdɪŋ ɡraʊndz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEEDING GROUNDS

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Feeding grounds is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FEEDING GROUNDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of feeding grounds in the English dictionary

The definition of feeding grounds in the dictionary is the place where animals gather to find food.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FEEDING GROUNDS


bands
bændz
Bonds
bɒndz
bounds
baʊndz
diamonds
ˈdaɪəməndz
ends
ɛndz
funds
fʌndz
grounds
ˈɡraʊndz
hands
hændz
hounds
haʊndz
Islands
ˈaɪləndz
lands
lændz
Netherlands
ˈnɛðələndz
petropounds
ˈpɛtrəʊˌpaʊndz
seconds
ˈsekəndz
showgrounds
ˈʃəʊˌɡraʊndz
sounds
saʊndz
surrounds
səˈraʊndz
swounds
zwaʊndz
thousands
ˈθaʊzəndz
zounds
zaʊndz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FEEDING GROUNDS

feedbag
feedbox
feeder
feeder primary school
feeder school
feeder stream
feedhole
feeding
feeding bottle
feeding frenzy
feeding stuff
feeding stuffs
feeding time
feedingstuff
feedlot
feedpipe
feedstock
feedstuff
feedstuffs
feedthrough

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEEDING GROUNDS

Barren Grounds
beat the bounds
Bury St Edmunds
by leaps and bounds
Cahokia Mounds
coffee grounds
electronic transfer of funds
go the rounds
hare and hounds
lick one´s wounds
managed funds
master of foxhounds
master of hounds
out of bounds
ride to hounds
rub salt into someone´s wounds
run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
the hounds

Synonyms and antonyms of feeding grounds in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «feeding grounds» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FEEDING GROUNDS

Find out the translation of feeding grounds to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of feeding grounds from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «feeding grounds» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

觅食地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

áreas de alimentación
570 millions of speakers

English

feeding grounds
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मैदान खिला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مناطق التغذية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нагула
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

terras de alimentação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খাওয়ার ভিত্তিতে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aires d´alimentation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alasan makan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Futterplätze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

根拠を供給
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

근거를 먹이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Panggonan makan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

căn cứ cho ăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணவு அடிப்படையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आहार ग्राउंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Besleme alanları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

motivi di alimentazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żerowiska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нагулу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hrănire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σίτιση λόγους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voerplekke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utfodring grunder
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

beiteområdet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of feeding grounds

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEEDING GROUNDS»

The term «feeding grounds» is regularly used and occupies the 87.472 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEEDING GROUNDS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about feeding grounds

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QUOTES WITH «FEEDING GROUNDS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word feeding grounds.
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Harry Johnston
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEEDING GROUNDS»

Discover the use of feeding grounds in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to feeding grounds and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Feeding Grounds
BL Blake. “Don't let what happened yesterday to Stog affect what your thinking. The sharks that attacked those boys were something different. Stog was just a freak accident.” “Don't you think I know that? Why do you keep harping on it?
BL Blake, 2013
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Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Right whales migrate annually between high-latitude feeding grounds and low- latitude calving and breeding grounds (Cummings, 1985; Reeves and Kenney, 2003). There are substantial differences in the locations where most research has ...
William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, J. G.M. Thewissen, 2009
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Conservation Genetics
During summer months, individual whales predictably return to only one of four geographically distinct coastal feeding grounds (Katona and Beard, 1990): Iceland, western Greenland, Newfoundland (including the coast of Labrador), and the ...
J. C. Avise, J. L. Hamrick, 1996
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Assessing Marine World Heritage from an Ecosystem ...
Up to 5000 nesting females a year, key feeding grounds and important to the juveniles. Up to 10,000 female green turtles nest annually in Seychelles, predominantly in the southern islands--esp. Aldabra, Assumption, Cosmoledo, Astove and ...
5
Marine Turtles in the Republic of the Seychelles: Status and ...
The feeding grounds of the juveniles and of the adults in a population are often spacially segregated from each other, even when both occur within a small area. The nesting beaches may be located a long way from the feeding grounds.
Jeanne A. Mortimer, 1984
6
Population Structure and Foraging Ecology of Southern Right ...
In baleen whales, site fidelity is thought to be maternally transmitted with calves learning the location of nursery and feeding grounds during their first annual migration (Hoelzel 1998). Over many generations, maternally directed site fidelity can ...
Luciano Oscar Valenzuela, 2008
7
American Duck Shooting
CONTRACTION OF FEEDING GROUNDS. Certain natural conditions have, at various times within the past few years, tended to injure the shooting of the Chesapeake Bay region. On a number of occasions great floods have swept down ...
George Bird Grinnell, 1991
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Marine Mammal Biology: An Evolutionary Approach
See text for further discussion. to feeding grounds in management areas IV, V and I (see Donovan 1991), respectively, in the Antarctic (Baker et al. 1998b). Most of the data for humpback whales suggests at least female fidelity between feeding ...
A. Rus Hoelzel, 2009
9
Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired ...
A more realistic mobility model captures the physical whale behavior by incorporating feeding grounds. In this enhanced model, three issues govern the direction of the whales' positions at any time: migration in a specified direction, grouping ...
Mohammad Ilyas, Imad Mahgoub, 2004
10
Molecular Ecology and Evolution: The Organismal Side : ...
... 14 Feeding grounds include the east coast of the U.S., the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea 1000»-3000 Feeding grounds along east coast of U.S. '£400 5300 Feeding grounds include Italy, Malta, and Tunisia 300-600 Feeding ...
John C. Avise, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEEDING GROUNDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term feeding grounds is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why the EU's increasing failure to protect nature means I may vote …
... starved to death by overfishing, mashed up by propellers and driven out of their feeding grounds by a cacophony of underwater noise from ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Indian road trip that's all the Raj - Travel - Life & Style - London …
... of Taj Lake Palace Herds of cattle, with huge horns and pommelled backbones, amble against the traffic on the way to feeding grounds. «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
3
Fraser Island dingo collar trial plan | Fraser Coast Chronicle
... Sanctuary said the only way to ensure dingoes prospered on the island was to restrict public access to the dingoes' natural feeding grounds. «Fraser Coast Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
Surfers and sharks: It's a special kind of relationship - Florida Today
... an eye out near rips or rock and reef formations (fish tend to congregate in these places, making them prime feeding grounds for sharks). «Florida Today, Jul 15»
5
Entire pod of humpback whales breach surface simultaneously …
... humpback whales are most commonly found near coastlines and they will migrate each year from their 'summer feeding grounds' to warmer ... «AOL Travel UK, Jul 15»
6
Single lady bees load up on perfume
... mate-searching is highly efficient, with 80 to 90 per cent of females mating on emergence, some females escape to nearby feeding grounds. «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
7
Brucellosis: Risk of transmission exaggerated - Missoulian
Elk seem to be an emerging problem; elk state feeding grounds (farming target sports animals), migrations among herds, may pose a risk ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
8
Three additional reddish egrets will be studied later this summer at …
Capturing on their feeding grounds is often successful because they like revisiting their favorite feeding places. Meyer said they are able to get ... «Island Reporter, Jul 15»
9
Increasing temperatures pose threats to reefs in Atlantic and Pacific …
As an integral part of marine biodiversity, “coral reefs are essential spawning, nursery, breeding, and feeding grounds for numerous organisms ... «Times Gazette, Jul 15»
10
In the Race to Control the Arctic, the U.S. Lags Behind - Newsweek
The bowhead whales had migrated past Barrow recently, on their way to their summer feeding grounds off Canada. 07_03_Arctic_05 Glaciers ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»

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