0 present participle of glean --
1 to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty: --
Species foraging mode was classified as ' 'gleaning' ' for bats which take food from surfaces; or 'aerial' for those that catch it in the air.
He had no difficulty in gleaning condemnations of communism from the various papal encyclicals which constituted the basis of the divine programme.
Although rather well protected during the day, these insects suffer increased exposure to predation by gleaning insectivorous bats at night.
Below we will try to answer these questions by gleaning evidence that supports the hypothesis and prediction we are investigating.
The nature of policy documents makes for difficulty in gleaning policy intent and meaning.
Assessing the potential impact of gleaning insectivorous bats on herbivorous insects requires a detailed dietary analysis of the bats and feeding rates.
Gleaning insectivores are divisible into four size classes.
A guild composed by background cluttered/gleaning frugivores was the richest in species (19), followed by background cluttered/gleaning insectivores (12 species).