roughage
English edit
Etymology edit
From rough (“not smooth; crude, unrefined”) + -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of appurtenance or collection).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌfɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: rough‧age
Noun edit
roughage (countable and uncountable, plural roughages)
- Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
- Antonym: nonroughage
- (agriculture) Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
- Synonym: (US) roughness
- (nutrition) Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
- Antonym: nonroughage
Alternative forms edit
- ruffage (archaic)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
portions of a crop which are discarded; agricultural waste such as weeds
coarse or rough plant material used as animal fodder
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
References edit
- ^ “roughage, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2020; “roughage, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
- dietary fiber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia