scatterhoard

English

Etymology

Verb

scatterhoard (third-person singular simple present scatterhoards, present participle scatterhoarding, simple past and past participle scatterhoarded)

(biology, ambitransitive) To hoard food in multiple caches in different locations.
- 2015, Stephen H. Jenkins, Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, page 210:
  The situation is more complex for rodents, which eat some seeds but scatterhoard others in conditions that may aid germination and establishment.

Related terms

larderhoard