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Trophallaxis in Asian-Australian weaver ant O. smaragdina, Thailand. Trophallaxis (/ ˌ t r oʊ f ə ˈ l æ k s ɪ s /) is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth or anus-to-mouth feeding.
overlapping antonyms, a pair of comparatives in which one, but not the other, implies the positive: An example is "better" and "worse". The sentence "x is better than y" does not imply that x is good, but "x is worse than y" implies that x is bad. Other examples are "faster" and "slower" ("fast" is implied but not "slow") and "dirtier" and ...
Moorhen chick being fed regurgitated food by an adult Eastern Bluebird regurgitating food. For birds that transport food to their mates and/or their young over long distances — especially seabirds — it is impractical to carry food in their bills because of the risk that it would be stolen by other birds, such as frigatebirds, skuas and gulls.
Regurgitation or regurgitate may refer to: Regurgitation (circulation) Regurgitation (digestion) Regurgitate (band), a Swedish goregrind band; See also.
In one example — the largest cut claimed by Musk's team — the group says taxpayers have been saved $654,990,000 due to ending a contract with International Development Group Advisory Services.
A pellet, in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate. The contents of a bird's pellet depend on its diet, but can include the exoskeletons of insects, indigestible plant matter, bones, fur, feathers, bills, claws, and teeth. In falconry, the pellet is called a casting.
In light of Pope Francis’ latest diagnosis, Dr. Leana Wen explains why older adults are especially at risk for serious disease due to respiratory infections.
Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.