unfed
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unfed (not comparable)
- Not fed.
- (figurative) Unsupported. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not fed
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Noun[edit]
unfed (plural unfeds)
- (biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
- The captured mosquitos were divided into feds and unfeds.
Anagrams[edit]
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞nvɛd/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɪnvɛd/
Adjective[edit]
unfed (feminine singular unfed, plural unfed, not comparable)
Usage notes[edit]
- The word unfed (“first”) is used in compound numbers, whereas cyntaf is used elsewhere, for instance, y llawr cyntaf (“the first floor”), yr unfed llawr ar hugain (“the twenty-first floor”).
Derived terms[edit]
- unfed ar ddeg (“eleventh”)
- unfed ar bymtheg (“sixteenth”)
- unfed ar hugain (“twenty-first”)