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silage

/ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/

silage noun: fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.

silage: fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp
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Noun

silage (usually uncountable, plural silages)

  1. (usually) Fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
    • Compared to the corn silages, the sweetclover silages are much higher in digestible crude protein, but lower in total digestible nutrients.1939, Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 57, page 506

Verb

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

  1. To ensile.

silage meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Sinhala and Malay

silage in Tamil

பதனப் பசுந்தீவனம், இரைபேணி, பசுமுண்டு, குழிக்காப்புத்தீனி, போர்த்தீனி, அறிகுறியற்ற

silage in Kannada

ಹಸುರು ಮೇವಿನ ರಾಶಿ, ಹಸುರು ಮೇವು

silage in Sinhala

සයිලේජ්

silage in Malay

fodder stored in a silo
silaj
More languagesFewer languages
silage in Indonesian
silase

Antonyms of silage

Forms of silage

Noun
pluralsilages
Verb
third-person singular presentsilages
present participlesilaging
past participlesilaged
pastsilaged

Origin of silage

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

Questions about silage

What does silage mean?
Silage means fermented green forage fodder stored in an airtight silo or clamp.
What is silage in Tamil?
Silage in Tamil is பதனப் பசுந்தீவனம், இரைபேணி, பசுமுண்டு. See Silage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is silage?
Silage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce silage?
Silage is pronounced /ˈsaɪlɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of silage?
The plural of silage is silages.

Words near silage in the dictionary

  1. silacyclopentane
  2. silacyclopentanes
  3. silaffin
  4. silaffins
  5. silafluofen
  6. silage
  7. silaged
  8. silageing
  9. silages
  10. silaging
  11. Silago

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: silage (page history and authors); silage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); silage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); silage (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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