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.

Noun

silage (countable and uncountable, plural silages)

1. Fermented green forage fodder stored in a silo.

Translations

fodder stored in a silo

• Danish: ensilage c
• Dutch: silage f
• Finnish: säilörehu (fi)
• French: silage m
• German: Silage (de) f
• Japanese: サイレージ (sairēji), 埋草 (まいそう, maisō), 埋芻 (まいすう, maisū)

• Maori: karaehe toroi
• Russian: си́лос (ru) m (sílos)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: силажа f

  Roman: silaža (sh) f

Verb

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

1. To ensilage.

Anagrams

• Siegal, ligase