fodder.

1. Food, especially coarse plant material, given to farm animals.

2. Material available for discussion, ridicule, or another person's use.

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Words that belong together

• winter fodder
• fodder crop

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The barn held enough fodder to carry the herd through winter.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.