pellet
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈpɛlɪt/
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gránulo
- The farmer sprinkled the feed pellets on the ground to attract the chickens.
- pellet delivery
- plastic pellets
- fuel pellets
But still, like deer, like poop pellets, like, that's just not that doesn't seem normal.
- But still, like deer, like poop pellets, like, that's just not that doesn't seem normal.
- OK, so hops come in pellets, they come in extracts.
- Those are the wood pellets or just the the wood that Jim mentioned.
- So, Dan, if you want billions of chicken pellets for your fish farm, I know where to get them.
- You can do so much with the alfalfa pellets.
- So yeah, I, I left creating the virgin pellets, moved into how do we create these virgin pellets out of waste?
- And so I, I know there once I said this on, on social media and people went crazy because they said, I love my testosterone pellets And I said, great.
- There's an* there because some farmers can get away with this by feeding hay, which is not fresh grass on a field or even grass pellets.
Examples
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Each rabbit ate several food pellets before getting back to playing in the yard.
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Outdoors, the wind was blowing fiercely, driving pellets of rain against the windowpanes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Those are the wood pellets or just the the wood that Jim mentioned.
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Start picking up those pellets right now.
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You over a period of a week or two determine how many food pellets each animal eats each day.
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So, Dan, if you want billions of chicken pellets for your fish farm, I know where to get them.
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Joe and the twins are throwing food pellets out of the back of the truck.
Fiction book (1998) -
We've got this little container which we can put all of our pellets in when we're not using them.
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Outside, the wind was stronger; tiny pellets of ice were being flung against the windows.
Fiction book (1997) -
Currently, 25 to 50 percent of the content of feed pellets is derived from captured pelagic fish.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
A small round object like a marble or bead
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pellet comes from an old French word pelote meaning 'small ball' and from the Latin word pila meaning 'ball'. So a pellet is a little 'ball' or tight mass, which explains its use for tiny medicine pieces, rabbit droppings, or compressed bits of material.