corn gluten feed
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4.5
- noun
- Specialized
:
piensos de gluten de maíz
- Economical and rich in protein, corn gluten feed is often used to enhance livestock diets.
Examples
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The farmer decided to use corn gluten feed as a nutritious supplement for his cattle.
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The researchers note that the use of high temperatures to dry corn gluten meal and corn gluten feed may eliminate any protein that survives the wet-milling process.
Academic text (2002) -
Many animal feed manufacturers include corn gluten feed in their products to improve overall feed quality.
Synonyms
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1.0
Food for farm animals like cows and chickens
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5.3
Food like hay or stalks that farmers give to animals
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3.3
Seeds of crops like corn or barley that farmers grow to feed animals
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4.2
A farm crop grown for animal feed and grain products, not eaten fresh
Food for farm animals like cows or pigs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a transparent compound: 'corn' + 'gluten' + 'feed' straightforwardly denotes feed made from corn gluten. Even though 'gluten' is somewhat technical, the ingredient+feed construction is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Corn gluten feed is a very literal name: it is animal feed made from the sticky protein part gluten left over when people process corn. That's why the name means 'a coarse feed made from corn leftovers'.