silage

See also: Silage

English

Etymology

Alteration (probably by influence of silo) of ensilage (1881), itself from French ensilage, from ensiler (“put in a silo”), from Spanish ensilar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪlɪdʒ

Noun

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silage

Wikipedia

silage (usually uncountable, plural silages)

1. Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
   • 1939, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 57, page 506:

     Compared to the corn silages, the sweetclover silages are much higher in digestible crude protein, but lower in total digestible nutrients.

Antonyms

• soilage

Hyponyms

• cornlage
• haylage
• oatlage
• ryelage
• wheatlage

Descendants

• → Welsh: silwair

Translations

fodder stored in a silo

Bulgarian: силаж m (silaž) Catalan: ensitjat m Chinese: Mandarin: 青貯 / 青贮 (zh) (qīngzhù) Czech: siláž (cs) f Danish: ensilage c Dutch: silage (nl) f Finnish: säilörehu (fi) French: silage m German: Silage (de) f Hungarian: szilázs Icelandic: vothey (is) n Indonesian: silase (id) Irish: sadhlas m Japanese: サイレージ (sairēji), 埋草 (まいそう, maisō), 埋芻 (まいすう, maisū) Malay: silaj Maori: karaehe toroī Polish: kiszonka (pl) f, kwaszonka (pl) f Portuguese: silagem (pt) f Russian: си́лос (ru) m (sílos) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: силажа f Roman: silaža (sh) f Spanish: ensilaje m, ensilado (es) m Welsh: silwair m

Verb

silage (third-person singular simple present silages, present participle silaging or silageing, simple past and past participle silaged)

1. To ensile.

Anagrams

• Gailes, Siegal, ligase