stover

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A mead thatched with stover is a meadow covered with rich grass and hay.

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  1. noun The dried stalks and leaves of a cereal crop, used as fodder after the grain has been harvested.

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  • The plant will use 700 tons per day of corn stover, wheat straw, milo stubble, switchgrass, and other feedstocks. —  U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
  • Biomass includes all plant and plant-derived material, such as wood, switch grass, corn stover, and miscanthus grass - making it a renewable energy resource that produces no net greenhouse gases. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • December 8, 2008 - The push for alternative energy has created a large demand for corn stover, a popular feedstock used to produce cellulosic ethanol, but utilizing these materials, rather than using it as compost, ...
  • "Doctoral student Ming Lau and I have shown that it's possible to use AFEX to pretreat corn stover (cobs, stalks and leaves) and then hydrolyze and ferment it to commercially relevant levels of ethanol without adding nutrients to the stover," Dale said. —  Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
  • These projects will demonstrate the thermochemical conversion process of turning grasses, stover, the non-edible portion of crops and other materials into biofuel. —  U.S. Department of Energy - Press Releases
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  1. Middle English, provisions, from Norman French estovers, from Old French estovier, to be necessary, from Latin est opus, it is necessary : est, third person sing. present tense of esse, to be; see essence + opus, need, work; see opus.

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  1. from Middle English stover, from Old French estover, estovoir, necessaries, from estover, estoveir, estovoir, estuvoir, estevoir, astovoir, istovoir, entovoir, stovoir, used impersonal, it is necessary; origin unknown.
  2. Origin obscure.
 

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