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单词 filter feeding
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Definition of filter feeding in US English:

filter feeding

adjective
Zoology
  • (of an aquatic animal) feeding by filtering out plankton or nutrients suspended in the water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unlike filter-feeding ducks, which raise self-feeding chicks, lesser flamingos must feed their young for the first ten to twelve weeks of their lives.
    • The other constraint we put on it was that they could do it only amongst filter-feeding fish.
    • Fast moving currents concentrate plankton and other goodies for filter-feeding animals that fuel these entire ecosystems.
    • The current can make diving difficult but also acts as a conveyor-belt, supplying all those filter-feeding creatures with food.
    • Positively associated with these differences are differences in growth rate and abundance of filter-feeding invertebrates (mussels, barnacles).

Definition of filter feeding in US English:

filter feeding

adjective
Zoology
  • (of an aquatic animal) feeding by filtering out plankton or nutrients suspended in the water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unlike filter-feeding ducks, which raise self-feeding chicks, lesser flamingos must feed their young for the first ten to twelve weeks of their lives.
    • The other constraint we put on it was that they could do it only amongst filter-feeding fish.
    • Fast moving currents concentrate plankton and other goodies for filter-feeding animals that fuel these entire ecosystems.
    • The current can make diving difficult but also acts as a conveyor-belt, supplying all those filter-feeding creatures with food.
    • Positively associated with these differences are differences in growth rate and abundance of filter-feeding invertebrates (mussels, barnacles).
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