provender
Provender is food that might not be fancy but it keeps you from going hungry, like the long-time provender of college students: rice, pasta, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the occasional discount pizza.
The noun provender comes from the Latin word praebenda, meaning “things to be furnished or provided.” Provender is a supply of food meant to sustain people, like a hearty stew that is lunch for military troops who need to keep their energy up. Provender can also describe a food supply for animals such as cows or horses. No matter who or what the provender feeds, the point is, it provides nutrition.
Definitions of provender
food for domestic livestock
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synonyms:
feed-
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blood mealthe dried and powdered blood of animals
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corn gluten feeda feed consisting primarily of corn gluten
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cattle cakea concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes
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creep feedfeed given to young animals isolated in a creep
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foddercoarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
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feed graingrain grown for cattle feed
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ensilage, silagefodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo
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oil cakemass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock
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pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swillwet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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mashmixture of ground animal feeds
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cud, rechewed foodfood of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
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bird feed, bird food, birdseedfood given to birds; usually mixed seeds
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pet food, pet-food, petfoodfood prepared for animal pets
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mastnuts of forest trees used as feed for swine
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fish mealground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock
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eatage, forage, grass, pasturage, pasturebulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
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oil mealground oil cake
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alfalfaleguminous plant grown for hay or forage
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broad bean, horse beana bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder
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haygrass mowed and cured for use as fodder
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stoverthe dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested
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chicken feed, scratchdry mash for poultry
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dog foodfood prepared for dogs
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cat foodfood prepared for cats
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canary seeda mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds
a stock or supply of foods
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synonyms:
commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals-
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food cachefood in a secure or hidden storage place
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lardera supply of food especially for a household
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food cache
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