PROVENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does provender mean? 

• PROVENDER (noun)
  The noun PROVENDER has 2 senses:

1. food for domestic livestock

2. a stock or supply of foods

  Familiarity information: PROVENDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVENDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Food for domestic livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

feed; provender

Hypernyms ("provender" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provender"):

fish meal (ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock)

mast (nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine)

pet-food; pet food; petfood (food prepared for animal pets)

bird feed; bird food; birdseed (food given to birds; usually mixed seeds)

cud; rechewed food (food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again)

mash (mixture of ground animal feeds)

pigswill; pigwash; slop; slops; swill (wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk)

oil cake (mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock)

ensilage; silage (fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo)

feed grain (grain grown for cattle feed)

fodder (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)

creep feed (feed given to young animals isolated in a creep)

cattle cake (a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes)

corn gluten feed (a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten)

blood meal (the dried and powdered blood of animals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stock or supply of foods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

commissariat; provender; provisions; viands; victuals

Hypernyms ("provender" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provender"):

larder (a supply of food especially for a household)

food cache (food in a secure or hidden storage place)

 Context examples 

It may be, too, that I spoke somewhat shortly concerning the bran and the beans, the same being poor provender and unfitted for a man of my inches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)