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ROUGHAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roughage mean?
• ROUGHAGE (noun)
The noun ROUGHAGE has 1 sense:
1. coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
Familiarity information: ROUGHAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
fiber; roughage
Hypernyms ("roughage" is a kind of...):
food product; foodstuff (a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roughage"):
bran (food prepared from the husks of cereal grains)
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