reeatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

re- +‎ eat

動詞

reeat (third-person singular simple present reeats, present participle reeating, simple past reate, past participle reeaten)

1. (transitive) To eat again.
   • 2008, Govind Prasad, Concepts and Issues of Environmental Management, Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, page 5:

     Fig. 1.4(c) is a nutrient cycle based on leaves which fall into shallow esturine water leaf fragments acted on by saprotrophs and colonised by algae are eaten and reeaten (coprophagy) by a key group of small detritus consumers […]

   • 2011 November 21 [c. 11 century], Sextus Amarcius, translated by Ronald E. Pepin, Jan M. Ziolkowski, Eupolemius, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 291:

     The dog reeats its own vomit and the pig once dry returns to the mud: so also Judas, after lamenting for a brief spell the death of the divine mouth, oron, reverts to keen envy.

   • 2019 April 26, Alleice Summers, Common Diseases of Companion Animals E-Book: Common Diseases of Companion Animals E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 235:

     Cecotrophs are formed from the remainder of the digestible material. These are full of nutrients and are passed to the outside to be reeaten by the rabbit.