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stovers

stovers is the plural of stover.

Meaning of stover

Noun

stover (countable and uncountable, plural stovers)

  1. Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
    • Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
      And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages
    • Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20

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Proper noun capitalized: Stovers

Stovers

  1. (plural) plural of Stover

Questions about stovers

What is stovers the plural of?
Stovers is the plural of stover.
What part of speech is stovers?
Stovers is a proper noun.

Words near stovers in the dictionary

  1. stovepipe-hatted
  2. stovepiped
  3. stovepipes
  4. stovepiping
  5. stover
  6. stovers
  7. stoves
  8. stovesful
  9. stoveside
  10. stovetop
  11. stovetops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stovers (page history and authors); Stovers (page history and authors); stover (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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