roughage

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In the fall and winter the old man had fed a good deal of fodder and other roughage, and during the winter the horse and cow had tramped this coarse material, and the stable scrapings, into a mat of fairly good manure He looked the horse and cow over with more care.

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  1. noun See fiber.
  2. noun Any rough or coarse material.

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  • The only thing that glowed more brightly than those tall tumblers full of rum-'n'-roughage was the warning bleeper over my nametag. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
  • If all the advertising in the world were to shut down tomorrow, would people still go on buying more soap, eating more apples, giving their children more vitamins, roughage, milk, olive oil, scooters and laxatives, learning more languages by gramophone, hearing more virtuosos by radio, re-decorating their houses, refreshing themselves with more non-alcoholic thirst-quenchers, cooking more new, appetizing dishes, affording themselves that little extra touch which means so much? —  Murder Must Advertise
  • I'm only choosing salads because I'm over forty and roughage is now a concern. —  Accidental Hedonist
  • When people talk about including fibre (or "roughage" as my grandad used to call it) in their diet, they are mostly thinking of wheat bran - proprietary products such as All Bran, —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • However, cancer patients likely also need something to ensure the receptor gets activated by butyrate, such as eating more roughage or, more likely, getting mega doses of butyrate or a compound with similar properties, Dr. Ganapathy said. —  Medindia Health News
 

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