food source
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- noun
- /fuːd sɔːrs/
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fuente de alimentos
- Seasonal harvesting of insects can provide a valuable food source at times when other food is scarce.
- an important food source
- an excellent food source
- a major food source
Well, what is the food source of those peptides?
- Well, what is the food source of those peptides?
- Yes, grass fed beef and lamb are the most nutritious, most important food sources for human beings.
- We don't need large amounts, the amount we can get from food sources and from incidental sun exposure.
- Megasphere nodes, but you enjoy dwelling so close to your food source.
- The seeds are protein rich, meaning that they're a prime food source for things like bacteria, fungi and insects.
- The future of that field would be to use synthetic biology again to look at what you could use as a food source to feed that process.
- When this food source that all the other ants are busy carrying back to the to the colony, they'll find the new food source.
- We evolved having food sources, animal sources of Omega threes of DHA and EPA.
- And then on those patties, they would find mushrooms and they would try them out as a food source because ancient primate.
Examples
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Our food source is supposed to mimic that as well.
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Birds and small mammals depend on the pinons as a food source, and hence biodiversity crashes.
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And if it is, how are they gonna get their food source?
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But what they do is they wait for their food source to come to them.
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Insects can be a good food source, but only if properly identified and prepared.
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I'll also have the blessing of being close to a food source almost everywhere I go.
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But I could never figure out why they'd want to destroy their food source.
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To provide shipwreck victims with a food source, domestic animals and vegetation were introduced to the island.
Academic text (1995) -
The fruit is an excellent food source for the fly larvae when they hatch.
Academic text (2004) -
Insects can be a good food source, but only if properly identified and prepared.
Synonyms
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Something people and animals eat or drink to live and grow
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Food and drink needed for growth and health
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Morphology
The meaning 'a place, organism, or substance from which food is obtained' is directly and compositionally derived from 'food' (substance consumed) + 'source' (origin/supplier). This simple noun+noun semantic combination is cross-linguistically common and follows standard compositional patterns, so a B1 learner knowing both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Food source shows a simple picture: something that gives food, like a farm, a berry bush, or a fishing spot. Here food is what we eat and source is the place it comes from, so the phrase means 'a place where food comes from'.