predation

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animal kingdom
anti-parasitic
autotroph
biota
biped
esculent
family
fauna
flora
flora and fauna
natively
non-mammalian
non-placental
omnivore
omnivorous
secondary consumer
songster
terrestrially
undomesticated
unparasitized

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Examples of predated

predated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Rural areas had a significantly higher number of predated nests than the forest sites.
Mean abundance of o flowers and fruits per plant and mean number of aborted, predated, and surviving seeds per fruit were estimated.
The stationary theory, which predated the finite-horizon one, can be obtained as a limiting case of the above, with some care though.
Much of this research predated related work in statistics and elsewhere.
Every day, predated adults (' mummies ') were collected, and the spider was replaced by a new starved one.
Nests in open-canopy forest were least predated (16.7%), with predation in rural areas (58.3%) being higher than in closed-canopy forest (32.8%).
The fetal and maternal morbidity and mortality are likely to be higher in preeclampsia than in chronic hypertension that has predated the pregnancy.
All predated plasticine models were collected to identify predators from the marks made.
Rodents predated seeds from 59.3% of the experimental dishes, whereas ants removed seeds from 46% of the dishes, and birds only from 38% of them.
This corresponded with similar networking activities undertaken in the town planning movement, and even predated the internationalization of other public services, notably policing.
Both squirrel species, in contrast, predated the seeds of ripe and unripe fruits.
As the middle-class and suburban populations expanded, they assimilated aspects of gardening and botanical traditions that predated them.
None of the birds ever predated the seeds, however, both species of squirrel rarely dropped the fruits without predating the seeds.
In most of the other places the migration of bakers predated the nineteenth century.
In the wine sector, for example, the delegation of some public functions to producer groups predated the agricultural depression of the 1920s and 1930s.
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