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- PABULUM Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Pabulum derives from the Latin term for "food" or "fodder" and was first used in English in the 17th century for anything taken in by plants or animals to maintain life and growth
- pabulum, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pabulum, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- pabulum - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Its properties, as we have seen, are living, growing, active, and it moves through some natural power of its own It has power to produce itself out of the food or pabulum, and muliplying by division, or dropping off of portions of its body
- Pabulum - definition of pabulum by The Free Dictionary
1 A substance that gives nourishment; food 2 Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid; pablum: "TV gobbled up comedy material and spat it out as pabulum" (Richard Corliss)
- PABULUM Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
PABULUM definition: something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment See examples of pabulum used in a sentence
- PABULUM definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
2 meanings: rare 1 food 2 food for thought, esp when bland or dull Click for more definitions
- Word of the Day: PABLUM - by Mike Bergin - Roots2Words
First came pabulum, which derives from the root PA- meaning to feed or protect Next came Pablum, the vitamin-fortified infant cereal developed in 1930 to prevent rickets and malnutrition in babies
- How coded wartime forecasts kept intelligence out of enemy hands
Some people, particularly farmers, still needed weather forecasts The Met Office arranged for special coded agricultural forecasts known as Pabulum
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