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stall-fed

stall-fed

1 7.7
Farmers keep animals inside a stall and feed them to make them fatter before sale
  • adjective
  • Specialized
: alimentado en establo
  • In order to meet demand, they switched to stall-fed practices for their livestock.

Examples

  • The farmer raised stall-fed cattle to ensure they were healthy and ready for market.

  • More than 60 percent of the cattle, sheep, and goats are stall-fed or tethered for part or all of the year.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Forest-floor litter, used as bedding for stall-fed livestock, probably constitutes the largest of these in the volume of biomass collected.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Many people prefer stall-fed meat because it is often considered more tender and flavorful.

How Confined

stall-fed
  • Specialized
1 7.7
pastureland
2 3.7
free-range
18 3.0

Surface Forms

stall-fed positive

Morphology

stall-fed = stall + feed (transparent) = stall + fed

The hyphenated compound literally combines 'stall' and the past-participle notion of 'feed', directly indicating animals kept and fed in a stall.

Etymology

Stall-fed comes from two plain words: stall, meaning 'small pen', and fed, meaning 'given food'. It was used for animals kept and fed inside a stall to make them fatter for market, so the origin explains the modern meaning.