- roughage rough·age n
- ['rʌfɪdʒ]
fibre fpl
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
roughage rough·age n
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rough|age — «RUHF ihj», noun. 1. rough or coarse material. 2. the coarser parts or kinds of food. Bran, fruit skins, and straw are roughage. Roughage stimulates the movement of food and waste products through the intestines … Useful english dictionary
roughage — 1883, rough grass or weeds, from ROUGH (Cf. rough) + AGE (Cf. age). Meaning coarse, bulky food first recorded 1927 … Etymology dictionary
roughage — rough•age [[t]ˈrʌf ɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) nut fiber 9) 2) rough or coarse material 3) ahb. any coarse, rough food for livestock • Etymology: 1880–85 … From formal English to slang
roughage — rough|age [ˈrʌfıdʒ] n [U] a substance contained in some vegetables, fruits, and grains that helps your ↑bowels to work = ↑fibre … Dictionary of contemporary English
roughage — rough|age [ rʌfıdʒ ] noun uncount fiber that helps food and waste to pass through your body … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
roughage — rough·age … English syllables
roughage — Anything in the diet, e.g., bran, serving as a bulk stimulant of intestinal peristalsis. * * * rough·age rəf ij n FIBER (2) also food (as bran) containing much indigestible material acting as fiber * * * n … Medical dictionary
roughage — /ruf ij/, n. 1. rough or coarse material. 2. any coarse, rough food for livestock. 3. fiber (def. 9). [1880 85; ROUGH + AGE] * * * … Universalium
roughage — n. 1 coarse material with a high fibre content, the part of food which stimulates digestion. 2 coarse fodder. Etymology: ROUGH + AGE 3 … Useful english dictionary
livestock farming — Introduction raising of animals for use or for pleasure. In this article, the discussion of livestock includes both beef and dairy cattle, pigs (pig), sheep, goats (goat), horses (horse), mules (mule), asses, buffalo, and camels (camel … Universalium
soft — [sôft, säft] adj. [ME < OE softe, gentle, quiet < sefte, akin to Ger sanft < IE base * sem , together, together with > SMOOTH, SAME: basic sense “fitting, friendly, suited to”] 1. giving way easily under pressure, as a feather pillow… … English World dictionary
