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觅食

mì shí

2-character word Traditional 覓食

What 觅食 means

1. to forage
2. to hunt for food
3. to scavenge
4. fig. to make a living

The characters in 觅食

• 觅mì(literary) to seek; to find
• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed

Example sentences

• 蝙蝠在夜中觅食 。
  Bats hunt at night.
• 蝉破土而出后，会蜕皮，等待身体干燥变硬，然后飞到树顶觅食和寻找配偶，它们通过发出响亮的蝉鸣来寻找配偶。
  Once out of the ground, the cicadas molt and wait for their bodies to dry and harden, then they fly to the tops of trees where they feed and look for a mate, which they do by making a loud buzz.

Words starting with 觅食

• 觅食行为mì shí xíng wéiforaging

Sounds the same

Read mì shí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 密实close (texture); dense; densely woven