Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🥚 Not giving food 🚫 Not eating
nonfeeding

nonfeeding

1 7.0
Not giving food to baby animals or people who need it
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈfiːdɪŋ/
: no alimentador
  • During the nonfeeding period, the mother bird stays close to her nest to keep her eggs warm.

Examples

  • Some birds have a nonfeeding phase while they are incubating their eggs.

  • During the nonfeeding period, the young animals rely on stored energy.

  • The nonfeeding stage of the insect's life cycle lasts several weeks.

  • After surgery, the animal entered a nonfeeding period and required special care.

  • The nonfeeding stage of the larvae lasts for several days.

  • In the nonfeeding stage, the young animal depends entirely on the nutrients it received before birth.

  • Certain insects become nonfeeding during their pupal stage, relying on the energy stored in their bodies.

Antonyms

feeding
150 1.0

Eating or giving food to people, animals, and plants

Surface Forms

nonfeeding positive

Morphology

nonfeeding = feeding (transparent) = non + feed + ing

The meaning is clearly derived from 'feeding' with the addition of the prefix 'non-' to indicate negation.

Etymology

Nonfeeding comes from non- ('not') and feed ('to give food'), so it can mean 'not providing food' to others, for example a bird that does not feed its chicks while it sits on the eggs or an animal that cannot feed its young for a time.