cotton cake
- noun
- Indian
:
torta de algodón
- Farmers often use cotton cake as a nutritious feed for livestock.
Examples
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Some agricultural fertilizers are made with the help of cotton cake due to its nutrient content.
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After the oil was pressed, the factory workers packaged the cotton cake for transport.
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Farmers often use cotton cake as animal feed.
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The cotton cake is rich in protein.
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After the oil was pressed, the factory workers packaged the cotton cake for transport.
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Farmers often use cotton cake as a nutritious feed for livestock.
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Some agricultural fertilizers are made with the help of cotton cake due to its nutrient content.
Synonyms
Solid material left after people remove oil from cotton seeds used to feed animals or help plants grow
A pressed block of seeds left after their oil is removed and used as animal feed
The ground leftover from seeds after oil is removed, used mainly as animal feed or plant food
How Nutritious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is readily derived from combining 'cotton' (the source material) with 'cake' (a compact mass or residue), following a common noun+noun compounding pattern (cf. 'oil cake', 'seed cake'). Although 'cake' can primarily evoke a baked dessert, the sense 'compact mass/residue' is also common and the compound's logic is cross-linguistically transparent, so a learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun cotton cake comes from the solid lump left after people press oil from cotton seeds. The firm leftover was called a cake because it is a compact block, and that is why the word now means the material used as 'animal feed' or 'fertilizer'.