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apreensão

English translation: ingestion or consumption


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Portuguese term or phrase:apreensão
English translation:ingestion or consumption
Entered by: silvia367325
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17:23 Aug 3, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Livestock / Animal Husbandry
Portuguese term or phrase: apreensão
Esses fatores podem proporcionar alterações no tempo de apreensão do alimento e ou consumo, afetando o desempenho animal. (gado criado em confinamento)
Andre Damasceno
Brazil
Local time: 08:11
ingestion or consumption
Explanation:
sugestão
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silvia367325
Local time: 08:11
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Summary of answers provided
4ingestion or consumptionsilvia367325
4Acquiring/obtaining
suesimons
2capture/capturingliz askew


  

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capture/capturing


Explanation:
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Lq0KeYz...

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mind you, I have just twigged

an animal in a confined space will not be doing any "capturing"!!

How about

obtaining

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here

translated as "acquisition"

Apreensão de tópicos em ética médica no ensino-aprendizagem de ...
https://www.ethicshare.org/node/478857 - Cached
Apreensão de tópicos em ética médica no ensino-aprendizagem de pequenos grupos. ... [[Acquisition of skills in medical ethics in learning-teaching small ...

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Assignment 12, page 1
www.ncsu.edu/project/bio181de/Lab/nutrition/nutrition1.html - Cached
WAYS THAT ANIMALS ACQUIRE AND DIGEST FOOD. Introduction to nutrient acquisition. All organisms require energy to remain alive. Organisms can be divided into ...

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so

getting, acquiring, obtaining

maybe:)

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even

apprehending
!!

6. Pellet Quality - PIC Fact Sheets - Nutrition
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While it is true that much of the physical effect of pelleting (that is density of diet and hence less time spent by the bird in apprehending food) is lost ...

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RABBIT'S TEETH @ minirex4u.com - A Bravenet.com Hosted Site
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In association with the lips, the incisors function to apprehend particulate food material and to "bite off" larger food particles. ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
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Acquiring/obtaining


Explanation:
Perhaps............

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ingestion or consumption


Explanation:
sugestão

silvia367325
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