A mixture of various kinds of grain sown together (as oats, pease, and vetches) for feeding cattle. Cf. dredge, n.2 2, meslin maslin, n.2 adj.forms…

Originally: field crops or their seed grains; fodder for cattle. In later use: plants having pods, pulse (cf. codware, n.1 1).

A name given to some species of vetch. Now, in general agricultural use, applied to the cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa, grown (often with oats…

In plural. Green vegetables or other plants used to feed animals. Now rare.

The leguminous plant Medicago sativa, resembling clover, cultivated for fodder; purple medick.

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? the sow-thistle (Sonchus arvensis), a prickly plant growing as a weed in corn.

A species of Polygonum (P. Fagopyrum), a native of central Asia, whence it was introduced into Europe by the Turks about the 13th cent. The seed…

A variety of the beet, Beta vulgaris, grown for its large, swollen, yellow-fleshed ‘root’ (formed from the stem base, the hypocotyl, and the upper…

= mangel-wurzel, n.

Any of several grasses grown in Mexico, the southern U.S.A., and the Philippines, and used for hay or fresh forage; fodder made from such a…

Any of several coarse, tough grasses grown in Mexico and the southern U.S.A. and used for hay, esp. species of Sporobolus and Epicampes; alkali sa…

a coarse variety of potato used as feed for cattle.

A low, barely audible utterance expressive of discontent or disapproval; indistinct talk or discussion; muttering. Also in extended use.

More fully ramon tree: any of several tropical American trees of the family Moraceae that have foliage and twigs used as fodder for livestock, esp. T…

any of various Australian shrubs or trees used as fodder for cattle during periods of drought.

South African. Usually with distinguishing word: any of various kinds of millet, esp. any grass of the genus Setaria; spec. (in full Boer manna)…

= buckwheat, n.