feed on
if an animal feeds on something, it eats it, especially as its usual food
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if an animal feeds on something, it eats it, especially as its usual food
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to catch and eat other animals. Animals that do this are predators and the animals they catch and eat are their prey
if animals feed off something, they eat it
to hunt another creature in order to eat it
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if an animal ruminates, it brings food back from its stomach into its mouth and chews it (=breaks it into small pieces with its teeth) a second time
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a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken
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