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Ensilage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The process of storing and fermenting green fodder in a silo.

n. Fodder preserved in a silo; silage.

v. To ensile.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder

v. To preserve in a silo.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air.

n. The fodder preserved in a silo.

v. To preserve in a silo.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A mode of storing fodder, vegetables, etc., in a green state, by burying it or them in pits or silos dug in the g-round. See silo.

n. The fodder, etc., thus preserved.

To store by ensilage; store in a pit or silo for preservation. See silo.

To make into silage; to ensile.

To affect by feeding silage, as ensilaged milk.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo

Word Usage

"The mass of 'ensilage', the dried and mixed material, loses its nutritional value unless oxygen is eliminated."

Verb Form

ensilaged ensilages ensilaging

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

provender feed

Form

ensilaged ensilaging