scatterhoard
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scatterhoard (third-person singular simple present scatterhoards, present participle scatterhoarding, simple past and past participle scatterhoarded)
- (biology, transitive, intransitive) To hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.
- 2015, Stephen H. Jenkins, Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, page 210:
- The situation is more complex for rodents, which eat some seeds but scatterhoard others in conditions that may aid germination and establishment.