silage
Origin of silage
1Words Nearby silage
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use silage in a sentence
Scaling up cattle meant giant steel and concrete sheds and making silage with artificial fertiliser instead of hay from barn muck in the old system.
American Agriculture Almost Ruined My Little English Farm. Now I'm Trying to Save It | James Rebanks | August 5, 2021 | TimeInstead, he has already cut much of it for silage to feed his cattle through the winter.
Midwest Drought Forces South Dakota Farmers and Ranchers to Abandon Crops and Thin Herds | Barbie Latza Nadeau | August 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn extreme cases, sour silage acquires a most disagreeable odour.
Ensilor stands for the person using the silo to ensile fodder for silage by the process of ensilage.
Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians | William K. DavidAll of these make good silage when properly harvested and stored.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | Various
The term "silage" is applied to the crop thus treated, and the term "ensilage" is applied to the process of making "silage."
silage, sī′laj, n. the term applied to fodder which has been preserved by ensilage in a silo.
British Dictionary definitions for silage
/ (ˈsaɪlɪdʒ) /
any crop harvested while green for fodder and kept succulent by partial fermentation in a silo: Also called: ensilage
Origin of silage
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse