surplus killing
surplus killing · surplus killings
The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then…The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)The behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.
Origin
Coined by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk.Coined by Dutch biologist Hans Kruuk.
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Forms
plural: surplus killings| Singular | surplus killing |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.