different between food vs caecotrophy

English

Etymology

From Middle English fode, foode, from Old English f?da (“food”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Scots fuid (“food”), Low German föde, vöde (“food”), West Frisian fiedsel (“food”), Dutch voedsel (“food”) Danish føde (“food”), Swedish föda (“food”), Icelandic fæða, fæði (“food”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (f?deins, “food”), Latin p?nis (“bread, food”), Latin p?sc? (“feed, nourish”, verb). Related to fodder, foster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fu?d/
• (General American) enPR: fo?od, IPA^(key): /fud/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

food (usually uncountable, plural foods)

1. (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:food
2. (countable) A foodstuff.

   Synonyms: (archaic, now only humorous or regional) belly-timber, foodstuff, provender; see also Thesaurus:food

   • 2006, C Williams, J Buttriss, Improving the Fat Content of Foods ?ISBN, page 492:

     Variation and changes in the trans fatty acid content of different foods, especially in processed foods, further complicate such estimates.

3. (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.

   Hyponym: brainfood

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

     In this moment there is life and food / For future years.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "food": raw, cooked, baked, fried, grilled, processed, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, nutritious, safe, toxic, tainted, adulterated, tasty, delicious, fresh, stale, sweet, sour, spicy, exotic, marine.

Synonyms

• (substance consumed by living organisms): belly-timber (archaic, now only humorous or regional), chow (slang), comestible (formal), eats (slang), feed (for domesticated animals), fodder (for domesticated animals), foodstuffs, nosh (slang), nourishment, provender, sustenance, victuals

Derived terms

Related terms

• feed
• fodder

Translations

See also

• breakfast
• brunch
• dinner
• dunch
• lunch, luncheon
• meal
• supper
• Category:Foods

Further reading

• food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• food on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• do of, doof

English

Alternative forms

• cecotrophy

Etymology

From caecum +? -trophy.

Noun

caecotrophy (uncountable)

1. (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.

   Hypernym: coprophagy

   • 2008, A. Belenguer et al., "Alternative methodologies to estimate ingestion of caecotrophes in growing rabbits," Livestock Science, vol. 115, no.1, p. 13,

     The second group (T-2: 6 rabbits) was also fed the labelled diet but only during the last ten days of the fattening period when animals were fitted a neck collar to prevent caecotrophy.

Related terms

• caecotroph
• caecotrophagic
• caecotrophic

See also

• reingestion