Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Food for livestock; fodder.
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- noun uncountable
feed foranimals ;fodder - noun countable Any particular form of such feed
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Examples
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The United States Institute of Peace, which I admit I'd never prviously heard of, have issued a paper saying terrorists use the Internet too but for more routine activities than the hyped-up cyberterrorism feedstuff of the mainstream media.
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Lithuania meanwhile banned imports of animals, animal products and feedstuff from China, Thailand, Honk Kong and Vietnam, while
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In England BSE was transmitted to cows through feedstuff supplemented with offals from scrapie-infected sheep.
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It has been transmitted to other animals such as mink and cats, and more recently to cows (mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE) through contaminated feedstuff.
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When feedstuff containing sheep offals was banned, the incidence of BSE decreased rapidly.
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The United States probably leads the world in developing sorghum as a feedstuff.
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High-lysine sorghum with its inbuilt robustness and drought tolerance could well become a vital feedstuff for northern China; large, dry areas of the Soviet Union; much of the Middle East; the semiarid zones of India and Pakistan; substantial portions of Mexico; and other places that are dry, salty, and lacking in lysine-rich feeds.
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But the crop is a more important feedstuff even than that.
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In at least one location, prunings from the contour hedges are sold to dairy farmers as a feedstuff and are replacing rice straw as bedding for animals.
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For all its importance here, vetiver is not a fine feedstuff.
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