Definition of Overhunted

1. overhunt [v] - See also: overhunt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhunted

overholy
overhomogenize
overhomogenized
overhomogenizes
overhonor
overhonored
overhonoring
overhonors
overhope
overhoped
overhopes
overhoping
overhot
overhung
overhunt
overhunted (current term)
overhunting
overhuntings
overhunts
overhydration
overhype
overhyped
overhypes
overhyping
overidealize
overidealized
overidealizes
overidealizing
overidentification
overidentified

Literary usage of Overhunted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"A. I attribute it to their being overhunted. (Edward W. Funcke.) I am decidedly of the opinion that fur-seal life has considerably decreased of late years, ..."

2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"A. 1 attribute it to their being overhunted. (Edward W. Funcke.) L am decidedly of the opinion that fur-seal life has considerably decreased of late years, ..."

3. Diversity, Globalization, and the Ways of Nature by Danilo J. Anton (1995)
"Hunter-gatherers and fishing cultures overhunted some species, overcollected or artificially dispersed seeds, and burned forests, bush, and herbaceous ..."

4. The Mekong: Environment and Development by Hiroshi Hori (2000)
"The problem is hunters: quite a large number of foreign hunters gathered around the Nam Ngum Dam and overhunted the reptiles and waterfowl that had gathered ..."

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