English > provender: 2 senses > noun 1, food| Meaning | Food for domestic livestock. |
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| Synonym | feed |
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| Narrower | bird feed, bird food, birdseed | Food given to birds |
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| blood meal | The dried and powdered blood of animals |
| cattle cake | A concentrated feed for cattle |
| corn gluten feed | A feed consisting primarily of corn gluten |
| creep feed | feed given to young animals isolated in a creep |
| cud, rechewed food | Food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again |
| feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
| fish meal | Ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock |
| fodder | coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop |
| mash | mixture / mixture of ground animal feeds |
| mast | nuts of forest / forest trees used as feed for swine |
| oil cake | Mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed |
| petfood, pet-food, pet food | Food prepared for animal pets |
| silage, ensilage | fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo |
| slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash | wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk |
| Broader | food, nutrient | Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue |
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| Spanish | comida, provisiones |
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| Catalan | menjar, provisions |
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