pabulum
pabulum is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adobe
- ammunition
- and
- arms
- article
- baggage
- blood
- bodily
- body
- brick
- brown
- brute
- calico
- cambric
- cashmere
- cement
- clapboard
- clay
- compo
- composition
- concrete
- condition
- corporal
- corporality
- corporeal
- corporeity
- corpus
- crockery
- daubing
- element
- experimental
- flesh
- food
- frame
- fuel
- grist
- household
- impersonal
- life
- material
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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