hunter-gatherer

noun

Etymology

From hunter + gatherer.

  1. inherited from gaderere
  2. formed as hunter-gatherer — “hunter + gatherer

Definitions

  1. A member of a group of people who live by hunting animals and gathering edible plants for…

    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.

    • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
    • “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA