fodder

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How to pronounce fodder in British English: 英 [ˈfɒdə(r)]word uk audio image

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  • Noun:
    coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
  • Verb:
    give fodder (to domesticated animals)

单词词源

fodder
fodder: see food
fodder (n.)
Old English fodder "food," especially "hay, straw, or other bulk food for cattle," from Proto-Germanic *fodram (cognates: Old Norse foðr, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *pa-trom, suffixed form of *pa- "to feed" (see food).

双语例句

1. The animal fodder supply is also severely depleted .
2. The poor well understand they are election fodder .
3. Not even the rise of the internet stemmed the tide . The web 's billions of pages provided a vast new source of fodder for the world 's humming printers .
4. Partly , this involves organising fodder provision , water supplies and pasture management .
5. They would also have wood for fencing and fodder for cattle and goats .

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