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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Relating to organisms' behaviour in which food is acquired at random intervals during the day or night.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th2der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ) Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-) English cata- Proto-Indo-European *Héh2mr̥ Proto-Hellenic *ā́mər Ancient Greek ἦμαρ (êmar) Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra)bor. English hemeral English cathemeral From cata- + hemeral.
