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hunter-gatherer
hunter-gatherer
English
Noun
hunter-gatherer (plural hunter-gatherers)
- A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for their main food sources, and who do not keep animals or farm land.
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
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Translations
person whose main food source is hunting and gathering
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References
- Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.