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What does predigestion mean?

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Noun
  1. The partial hydrolysis etc. of food, by enzymes or other materials, prior to normal digestion
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Having nabbed its prey, the box jellyfish moves the captive to its stomach for predigestion.
His first great experiment would fill bellies, equaling the predigestion of foodstuffs by cooking, which had quickened thought and prolonged life.
First, a predigestion with nitric acid and then a digestion with perchloric acid.
He is thinking of farmers who breed grasses to produce food crops, and of cooking as a process of predigestion to enable us to consume otherwise inedible foods.
Enzyme predigestion with pepsin was performed as recommended by the manufacturer.

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