飼料 — meaning in English

English meaning

• feed verb To give food to a person or animal.
• fodder noun Food, such as hay or grain, given to livestock like cattle and horses.

Senses

飼料 is used for these senses in English:

• animal feed Material, of an animal or most often vegetable origin, prepared (especially industrially) as feed for domestic or farm animals.
• feed (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
• fodder Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

feed — full definition

1. verb To give food to a person or animal.
2. verb To supply material into a machine or process.
3. noun Food given to farm animals or pets.
4. noun A continuously updated stream of online content, such as posts from social media.

fodder — full definition

1. noun Food, such as hay or grain, given to livestock like cattle and horses.
2. noun Raw material that feeds or fuels something, especially gossip, satire, or discussion.
3. noun People treated as expendable or of little individual value, especially in the phrase "cannon fodder."

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