Hunter-gatherer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a member of a hunting and gathering society wordnet

Example

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"For the costume party, I'm going as a hunter-gatherer and she's going as an archeology student."

Etymology

From hunter + gatherer.

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