| 单词 | fodder |
| 释义 | fodder (once / 2696 pages) 1nv 2n Fodder is cheap food, usually given to livestock animals like cows. If you gave a cow caviar or homemade scones, that would not be fodder. Try cornstalks. Fodder is not just used to describe cattle feed. We use the word to talk about other kinds of feeding that don't involve actual food. A new celebrity marriage is fodder for gossip magazines. In war, the soldiers most likely to be killed, are called cannon fodder, from the times when armies used canons instead of drone aircraft dropping missiles. WORD FAMILYfodder: foddered, foddering, fodders USAGE EXAMPLESBut in some cases, the silence was deafening, and what wasn’t explained provided fodder for conversation. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) He was closing one self-investigation but providing fresh fodder for another. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) They say limited hunting allows for a controlled elimination of weak animals, while earning funds for fodder and other care for the herds. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop Hypo|Hyper eatage, forage, grass, pasturage, pasture bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle alfalfaleguminous plant grown for hay or forage broad bean, horse beana bean plant cultivated for use animal fodder haygrass mowed and cured for use as fodder stoverthe dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested timothya grass grown for hay feed, provender food for domestic livestock 2v give fodder (to domesticated animals) 2Hyper feed, give give food to n soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire Syn|Hyper cannon fodder, fresh fish soldier an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army |
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