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Foodless

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adj. Lacking food.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Without food; barren.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Without food; destitute of provisions; barren.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. being without food

Word Usage

"His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals."

Equivalent

malnourished

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

barren

Same Context

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