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pablum

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Noun — An alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).

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A variant of Pablum, the name of a food supplement for malnourished infants developed in 1931 by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, together with Mead Johnson & Company. It probably shortens Latin pābulum (“fodder for animals; food, nourishment”), from pā(scō) (“to feed, nourish; to drive to pa...

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