provender
Other forms: provenders
Provender is food that might not be fancy but it keeps you from going hungry, like the long-time provender of college students: rice, pasta, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the occasional discount pizza.
The noun provender comes from the Latin word praebenda, meaning "things to be furnished or provided." Provender is a supply of food meant to sustain people, like a hearty stew that is lunch for military troops who need to keep their energy up. Provender can also describe a food supply for animals such as cows or horses. No matter who or what the provender feeds, the point is, it provides nutrition.
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food for domestic livestocksynonyms: feedtypes:blood mealthe dried and powdered blood of animalscorn gluten feeda feed consisting primarily of corn glutencattle cakea concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakescreep feedfeed given to young animals isolated in a creepfoddercoarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal cropfeed graingrain grown for cattle feedensilage, silagefodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silooil cakemass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestockpigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swillwet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milkmashmixture of ground animal feedsmastnuts of forest trees used as feed for swinefish mealground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestockeatage, forage, grass, pasturage, pasturebulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattleoil mealground oil cakealfalfaleguminous plant grown for hay or foragehaygrass mowed and cured for use as fodderstoverthe dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvesteddog foodfood prepared for dogscat foodfood prepared for catscanary seeda mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds
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a stock or supply of foodssynonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victualstypes:food cachefood in a secure or hidden storage placelardera supply of food especially for a household
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