Roughage is that part of food the body can't digest.
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Roughage
//ˈɹʌfɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "roughage" (23 found)
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12 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- груб/твърд материал noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
Finnish
3 entries- karkearehu noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
- rouhe noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
- silppu noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
German
1 entries- Raufutter noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
Hindi
2 entries- रफ़ेज noun (substances which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract — see also dietary fibre)
- रुक्षांश noun (substances which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract — see also dietary fibre)
Malay
1 entries- pelawas noun (substances which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract — see also dietary fibre)
Polish
3 entries- balast noun (portions of a crop which are discarded; agricultural waste such as weeds)
- błonnik noun (substances which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract — see also dietary fibre)
- pasza objętościowa noun (coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder)
Urdu
1 entries- رفیج noun (substances which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract — see also dietary fibre)
Sample sentences
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Roughage is the part of food the body can't digest.
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The results of this experiment, as given in Table VII, show that sweet-clover hay is practically equal to red-clover and alfalfa and greatly superior to prairie hay for roughage for steers.
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I keep telling her not to eat all that roughage for brekky; prunes, bran, and baked beans.
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