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silage

silage

2 7.9
Food made from green plants like grass or corn that is stored and fermented to feed farm animals
  • noun
  • /ˈsaɪlɪdʒ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : silaje
  • The 6% molasses treatment resulted in better (P < 0.05) physical and nutritional properties of the silage.
  • maize silage
  • grass silage
  • corn silage

Now with persnickety weeds, you can take a black tarp, a silage tarp, and cover that area.

Examples

  • The two families that farm have been busy chopping corn and hauling out loads of silage.

    Academic text (2016)

  • At the University of Vermont's (UVM) dairy farm, manure is composted with leaves, hay, corn silage, and haylage.

    Academic text (1998)

  • All you have to do is lay out enough silage, and they come running.

    Blog text (24)

  • The physical and nutritional properties of the prepared silage were determined.

    Academic text (2015)

  • All right, you'll find the feed, in the shed, over by the silage.

    Isolation (2005)

  • The levels of lead in silage increased with increasing levels of molasses, up to 53 mg/kg in the 6% molasses treatment.

    Academic text (2015)

  • A truckload of silage for certain grazers of ours didn't pass the spot check the nutrition department ran.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Silage was prepared by mixing low palatable grass dab with maize fodder at dough stage.

    Academic text (2015)

  • East Coast Compost in Asheville, North Carolina, processes dairy manure, food residuals, sawdust, and spent silage.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Farmers often store corn as silage to ensure they have enough feed for their livestock during winter months.

Synonyms

feed
vssilage
89 1.0

Food for farm animals like cows and chickens

is specifically green-harvested and fermented, not just general animal food
forage
vssilage
4 4.4

Bulky food like grass or hay fed to horses and cattle

is preserved by fermentation after green harvest, not fresh grazing material
fodder
vssilage
4 5.3

Food like hay or stalks that farmers give to animals

is a preserved green harvest kept by fermentation rather than general coarse food
ensilage
vssilage
  • Specialized
9.9

Farmers store green crops in a silo and partly ferment them to feed animals

is the same preserved green fodder defined by fermentation in storage
feedstuff
vssilage
  • Specialized
5.1

Food for farm animals like cows or pigs

is a specific kind of preserved green animal food, not any animal feed
eatage
vssilage
  • Archaic
9.9

Plant food like grass or hay that animals eat

is the fermented green harvest kept for later feeding rather than rough grazing

How Nutritious

concentrate
4 5.2
silage
  • Specialized
2 7.9
eatage
  • Archaic
9.9
straw
79 1.0

Surface Forms

silage singular
silages plural

Morphology

silage = silo (semi-transparent) = silo + age

The word is built from a recognizable base and suffix, but the specific meaning 'fodder preserved by fermentation' is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Silage comes from silo plus the ending -age, so it literally means 'the stuff kept in a silo'. A silo is the tall farm store where farmers keep green grass or corn to ferment, so silage is the preserved green food farmers use to feed animals.